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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. - The Divine Comedy, Inferno [Books (First Lines)] The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.] - The Divine Comedy ((Inferno, canto iii)), (Longfellow translation) first portion is an oft-quoted paraphrase of bracketed portion [Neutrality] There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. - The Divine Comedy (Inferno, canto V, l. 121-23) [Pain] Consider what you came from: you are Greeks! You were not born to live like mindless brutes but to follow paths of excellence and knowledge. - The Divine Comedy (Inferno, canto XXVI, l. 118-20) [Learning] Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. - The Divine Comedy (Purgatory, canto V, l. 10-15) [Endurance] Your earthly fame is but a gust of wind that blows about, shifting this way and that, and as it changes quarter, changes name. - The Divine Comedy (Purgatory, canto X, l. 100-02) [Fame] Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame. - The Divine Comedy (Purgatory, canto XXX, l. 46-48) [Blood] 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. - The New Life, (Dante Gabriel Rosetti translation) [Books (First Lines)] Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else. - Vision of Paradise (canto V, l. 41) [Knowledge] O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one. - Vision of Paradise (canto XX, l. 122) [Doctrine] Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. - Vision of Paradise (canto XXIX) [Preaching] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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