Charles Eliot Norton

  • putriiokthas quoted2 years ago
    There is no greater woe than in misery to remember the happy time
  • jellybellyhas quotedlast year
    Love, that on gentle heart quickly lays hold, seized him for the fair person that was taken from me, and the mode still hurts me. Love, which absolves no loved one from loving, seized me for the pleasing of him so strongly that, as thou seest, it does not even now abandon me. Love brought us to one death.
  • Elishas quoted2 years ago
    You citizens called me Ciacco; [1] for the damnable sin of gluttony, as thou seest, I am broken by the rain.
  • Elishas quoted2 years ago
    Two men are just, but there they are not heeded; Pride, Envy, Avarice are the three sparks that have inflamed their hearts."[1]
  • Elishas quoted2 years ago
    Already every star sinks that was rising when I set out, and too long stay is forbidden."
  • Elishas quoted2 years ago
    In the Parson's Tale Chaucer says: "Envie and ire maken bitternesse in heart, which bitternesse is mother of accidie."
  • Elishas quoted2 years ago
    Hell."

    We at last arrived within the deep ditches that encompass that disconsolate city. The walls seemed to me to be of iron.
  • putriiokthas quoted2 years ago
    beware how thou enterest, and to whom thou trustest thyself; let not the amplitude of the entrance deceive thee."
  • putriiokthas quoted2 years ago
    beware how thou enterest, and to whom thou trustest thyself; let not the amplitude of the entrance deceive thee.
  • putriiokthas quoted2 years ago
    Love, that on gentle heart quickly lays hold, seized him for the fair person that was taken from me, and the mode still hurts me. Love, which absolves no loved one from loving, seized me for the pleasing of him so strongly that, as thou seest, it does not even now abandon me. Love brought us to one death.
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