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• To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sea, Water, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, May, Mankind

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

  Dante Alighieri

  Longing, No Hope

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

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• The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wind, Long, Earth

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatoria, Song XI, 100, 1321.

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• The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Speech

  "The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio". Poem by Dante Alighieri, Canto XI, 1321.

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• O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Light, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.163, Indiana University Press

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• Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

  Dante Alighieri

  Self, Sea, Chimes

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1949). “Poems & translations, 1850-1870: together with the prose story 'Hand and soul'”

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• Still desiring, we live without hope.

  Dante Alighieri

  Hope, Without Hope, Stills

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song IV, 42, 1321.

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• Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.

  Dante Alighieri

  Delight, Range, Intellect

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• The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

  Dante Alighieri

  Change, Fashion, Men

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Paradiso, Song XXVI, 137, 1321.

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• Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Heart, Gentle

  Dante Alighieri (1862). “Dante's Divina commedia, tr. in the metre and triple rhyme of the original, with notes, by mrs. Ramsay”, p.34

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Prayer, Heart, Grace

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.80, Penguin

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Political, May, Politics

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• Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dog, Weather, Justice

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• All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Summer, Flower, September

  Dante Alighieri, Claudia Hamilton Ramsay (1862). “Dante's Divina Commedia Translated Into English, in the Metre and Triple Rhyme of the Original with Notes by Ramsay: Purgatorio”, p.77

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• In the midway of this our mortal life,
  I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
  Gone from the path direct.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Gone, Woods

  Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (2010). “The Divine Comedy”, p.204, Bibliolis Books

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• As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

  Dante Alighieri

  Fall, Shadow, Phantoms

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

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• The well heeded well heard.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heard, Wells

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• If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flames, Depth, Answers

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• Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

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• The experience of this sweet life.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sweet, Sweet Life

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy Reference With Modern English Translation of the Epic Poem: Includes Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.1616, BookCaps Study Guides

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• And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Water, Turns, Shore

  Dante Alighieri, John D Sinclair (1961). “The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Go right on and listen as thou goest.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dante Alighieri (1961). “The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: Purgatorio”, p.71, Oxford University Press

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• Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

  Dante Alighieri

  Humor, Commitment, Blow

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “The Divine Comedy: Top Classic Poetry”, p.233, 谷月社

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