"Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance."
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Dante Alighieri quotes (page 12 of 14)
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"I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest."
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"No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery."
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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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"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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"A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded."
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"The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness."
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"We have no hope and yet we live in longing."
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"Abandon every hope, you who enter."
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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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"Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide."
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"Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42"
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"Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire."
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"The mouse had fallen in with evil cats."
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"If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven."
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"Small projects need much more help than great."
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"Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch."
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"It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things"
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"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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"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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