Torquato Tasso quotes

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. (Torquato Tasso)
Any time not spent on love is wasted. View quote
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Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. View quote
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True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. View quote
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. View quote
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She fair, he full of bashfulness and truth, Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought. View quote
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Love the servant of gold is the greatest, foulest, most abominable monster created on earth or amid the sea's waves. View quote
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Thus if just once you tasted the thousandth part of joy's flavor, savor from a loving and beloved heart, repentently you'd say: "Lost is all that time I didn't spend in love!" View quote
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Now don't you know how woman is made? She flees, and fleeing wants to be caught; she denies, and denying wants to be carried off; she fights, and fighting wishes to be vanquished. View quote
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Eròtimo cries: 'Not science (I am sure) nor my poor mortal hands here work your cure. View quote
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Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. (Torquato Tasso)
Lovely Nymphs, ye sister Nymphs of the river Po, And ye from out the greenwood and where the sea-waves beat, And ye who live by fountains and on hill-tops high. View quote
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Bold, but cautiously bold. View quote
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Already darkening night had quenched all rays of daylight, and made truce, in mere oblivion of all care and fright, with tears and with laments. View quote
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O love, o wonder; love new born, new bred, Now groan, now armed, this champion captive led. View quote
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Three times the warrior has embraced the maid in his huge arms. View quote
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In a cloak of truth disguise your scheming. View quote
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Greek faith the due of him who is not known. View quote
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Love, let others read The Socratic papers, While in two beautiful eyes I will apprehend this art. View quote
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Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft. View quote
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So might we die, not envying them that live; So would we die, not unrevenged all. (Torquato Tasso)
Her peasant garments cannot hide the light of noble soul, her nature high and grand, and all her queenly majesty shines bright in every act her humble chores demand. View quote
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Fame, whose sweet voice whispers of phantom bliss to you proud mortals, and who seems so fair, is a mere echo, dream, dream lost in shade, at every wind-puff scattered and unmade. View quote
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Art, that does all things, never herself displays. View quote
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Wherever I am, I am Love, no less among these shepherds than with nobility. And inequalities of subjects to my rule I balance as I please. View quote
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