As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.
I found myself within a forest dark.
Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
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
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.
All of nature is God's art.
He is not always at ease who laughs.
The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
I wept not — so to stone I grew within.
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
A backward glance can often lift the heart.
The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
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