Torquato Tasso quotes
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“Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!”
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“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.”
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“None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.”
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“Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.”
-- Torquato TassoSource : "'Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia' ('The Art of Worldly Wisdom')". Book by Baltasar Gracian, translated by Joseph Jacobs. Maxim No. 59, 2010.
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“O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees”
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“Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame”
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“Not for no cold did freeze, Nor any cloud beguile Th'eternal flowering spring”
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“A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate. [It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa, Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]”
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“Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their speech is death, hell in their smile. [It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace: Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida, Si tra se volge.]”
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“O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,--a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.”
-- Torquato TassoSource : Torquato Tasso “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, Library of Alexandria
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“Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.”
-- Torquato TassoSource : Torquato Tasso (1749). “Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered: Or Godfrey of Bulloign: An Heroic Poem”, p.37
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“For when last need to desperation driveth, Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth. [It., Che spesso avvien che ne' maggior perigli Son piu audaci gli ottimi consigli.]”
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“Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay, And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear. [It., Bello in si bella vista anco e l'orrore, E di mezzo la tema esce il diletto.]”
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“They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte. Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]”
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“The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.”
-- Torquato TassoSource : "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act IV, scene IV, line 63, 1790.
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“Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.”
-- Torquato TassoSource : Torquato Tasso, Leigh Hunt (1851). “Godfrey of Bulloigne, Or, The Recovery of Jerusalem: Done Into English Heroical Verse, from the Italian of Tasso”, p.13
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“As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.”
-- Torquato TassoSource : Torquato Tasso (1802). “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, p.224
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“Lost is the time that you don't spend for love.”
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“Perhaps if only once you did enjoy The thousandth part of all the happiness A heart beloved enjoys, returning love, Repentant, you would surely sighing say, “All time is truly lost and gone Which is not spent in serving love.—
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“It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.”
-- Torquato TassoSource : "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act II, scene III, line 115, 1790.
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“He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.”
-- Torquato TassoSource : Torquato Tasso, “Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 02”
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“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.”
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