All Being within this order, by the laws
of its own nature is impelled to find
its proper station round its Primal Cause.
Thus every nature moves across the tide
of the great sea of being to its own port,
each with its given instinct as its guide.
should it occur again, as we walk on,
that we find ourselves where others of this crew
fall into such petty wrangling and upbraiding.
The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!
Dante AlighieriMidway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
for I had wandered off from the straight path.
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.
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.
Dante AlighieriGreat fire can follow a small spark: there may be better voices after me to pray to Cyrrha's god for aid - that he may answer.
Dante AlighieriOpen your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
Dante AlighieriO Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense.
Dante AlighieriTags: inspirational repentance sorrowful
اي آنكه داخل ميشوي، دست از هر اميدي بشوي
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