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Dante Alighieri21 quotes
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri · 1321When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Haste denies all acts their dignity. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321All 21 quotes →Samuel Taylor Coleridge11 quotes
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed
The lighthouse top I see?
Is this the hill? Is this the kirk?
Is this mine one countree? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798All 11 quotes →William Shakespeare9 quotes
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare · 1593Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. — William Shakespeare · 1594Vows were ever brokers to defiling. — William Shakespeare · 1609It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd,
To think their dolour others have endur'd. — William Shakespeare · 1594Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies.
Love is all truth, Lust full of forgèd lies. — William Shakespeare · 1593Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks,
Poor women's faces are their own faults' books. — William Shakespeare · 1594All 9 quotes →