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

  Dante Alighieri

  Light, Sight, Long

  Dante Alighieri, Julie Eidesheim (1944). “The Divine comedy of Dante Alighieri”

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• Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

  Dante Alighieri

  Air, Singing, Larks

  Dante Alighieri (1961). “The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradiso”, p.291, Oxford University Press

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• A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

  Dante Alighieri

  Silence, Deeds, Action

  Dante Alighieri (1961). “The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno”, p.299, Oxford University Press

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• Love hath so long possessed me for his own
  And made his lordship so familiar.

  Dante Alighieri

  Long, Made, Familiar

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The New Life”, p.56, Dante Alighieri

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Book, Dark, Journey

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.433, Penguin

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• I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Savages, Littles

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy”, p.3, Tyché

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flower, Moving, Eye

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Portable Dante”, p.420, Penguin

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flower, Night, White

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”

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• These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.

  Dante Alighieri

  Soul, Sin, Enough

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• The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next;
  And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate
  The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports.
  These orders upward all of them are gazing,
  And downward so prevail, that unto God
  They all attracted are and all attract.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sports, Angel, Order

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy”, p.410, Tyché

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• I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

  Dante Alighieri

  Fate, Sorrow, Desire

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Knowledge, Wells

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “The Divine Comedy: Top Classic Poetry”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sad, Justice, Divine

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One”, p.11, Wildside Press LLC

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• Midway upon the journey of our life

  Dante Alighieri

  Journey, Divine Comedy, Midway

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, Dante Alighieri

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• What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?

  Dante Alighieri

  Verses, Knows, Ifs

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• That with him were, what time the Love Divine

  Dante Alighieri

  Divine

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy”, p.4, Tyché

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• 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

  Dante Alighieri

  Moon, People, Soul

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• Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Sowing, Exclusion

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic”, p.272, Vintage

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• 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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Journey, Doe, Half

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Land, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “Paradiso”, p.182, Bantam Classics

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• In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Book, Purpose

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “La Vita Nuova: The New Life”, p.12, The Floating Press

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