Dante Alighieri Quotes, Longing Quotes

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

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Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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Nature is the art of God.

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It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

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As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.

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I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

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The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.

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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

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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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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

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We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

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Midway upon the journey of our life

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Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

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There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

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