Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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Quotes by Dante Alighieri
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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
From a little spark may burst a flame.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Follow your own star!
Nature is the art of God.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
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