Dante Alighieri Quotes, Butterfly Quotes, Mean Quotes

Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

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I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

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He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.

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If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.

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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

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In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.

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As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

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Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

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How come I never meet any nice girls?

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The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.

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Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

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Follow your path, and let the people talk.

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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

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The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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