Torquato Tasso Quotes

• Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

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  Love, Romantic, 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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  Love, Cute, Romantic

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• Any time not spent on love is wasted.

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  Love, Life, Long Distance Relationship

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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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  Love, Heartbreak, Doe

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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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  Heart, Gone, Beloved

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• Lost is the time that you don't spend for love.

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  Lost

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• The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
  We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

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  Corn On The Cob, Busy, Corny

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act IV, scene IV, line 63, 1790.

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• Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

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  Doors, Fortune, Accompany

  "'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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• He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.

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  Littles, Truth Love, Bashfulness

  Torquato Tasso, “Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 02”

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• Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

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  Courage, Men, Years

  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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• 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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  Women, Heart, Crafts

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• None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.

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  Names, Merit, Poet

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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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  Milk And Honey, Rivers, Tree

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• Then amongst flowers and springs,
  Making delightful sport,
  Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

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  Sports, Peace, Spring

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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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  Wise, Sky, Heaven

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• A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.

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  Friends, Trouble

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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.

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  Humble, Winning, Done

  Torquato Tasso “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, Library of Alexandria

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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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  Men, Fool, Debate

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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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  Fear, Spring, Gay

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• Not for no cold did freeze,
  Nor any cloud beguile
  Th'eternal flowering spring

  Torquato Tasso

  Spring, Clouds, Youth

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• Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.

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  Sleep, Ease, Virtue

  Torquato Tasso (1749). “Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered: Or Godfrey of Bulloign: An Heroic Poem”, p.37

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• As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

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  Hair, Gleam, Sanguine

  Torquato Tasso (1802). “Jerusalem Delivered: An Heroic Poem”, p.224

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• It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

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  Should, Fortune, Fortunate

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act II, scene III, line 115, 1790.

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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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  Son, Advice, Needs

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