"What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?"
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Dante Alighieri quotes (page 14 of 14)
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"A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes."
"When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon"
"Midway upon the journey of our life"
"Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here."
"Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar."
"I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon."
"Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else."
"The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride."
"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."
"When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray."