Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone. Dante Alighieri More Quotes by Dante Alighieri More Quotes From Dante Alighieri He listens well who takes notes. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy wells notes At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost. Dante Alighieri journey path dark The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth. Dante Alighieri circles eye heaven So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces. Dante Alighieri rocks pieces broken I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point. Dante Alighieri stars eye moon 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 light blow heaven O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated, Well may you launch your vessel Upon the deep sea. Dante Alighieri singing angel sea Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. Dante Alighieri heat fire beauty Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. Dante Alighieri arrows essence two He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it. Dante Alighieri refusal spirit needs Still desiring, we live without hope. Dante Alighieri without-hope stills hope Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Dante Alighieri tempest towers courage e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars") Dante Alighieri stars And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes. Dante Alighieri air dark hands The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed. Dante Alighieri creation goodness christianity Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. Dante Alighieri passion noble soul Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle. Dante Alighieri pinnacle doe justice O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne? Dante Alighieri christian inspirational believe As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning. Dante Alighieri light white science If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy causes world
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