Torquato Tasso quotes - page 2

Too dark the place and too inscrutable where mortal men their deepest thoughts control. (Torquato Tasso)
You know the world delights in lovely things, for men have hearts sweet poetry will win, and when the truth is seasoned in soft rhyme it lures and leads the most reluctant in. View quote
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In what a narrow circuit, among what abandoned solitudes your fame lies bound! Amid vast seas your island earth is shut, though "vast" or "ocean", or what words resound to name that sea, are idle names and fond, for what it is: a shallow bog, a pond. View quote
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For little differs death and heavy sleep. View quote
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The world grows old, and growing old, withers away. View quote
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Alike prepared for all fates, at each breath assured of triumph and contemning death. View quote
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What you wish, you may. View quote
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Woman, a thing changeable in nature, more than whistles in the wind and more than the tip of a supple stalk of wheat. View quote
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You, Honor, you first veiled The fountains of delight, Denying those waves to the thirsting lovers. View quote
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This is truly the age of gold, since only gold wins and gold reigns. View quote
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Oh, such a gentle entreaty this fool has found, reminding me of my youth, of pleasures past and present woes! (Torquato Tasso)
Newborn Love has short wings. He can scarcely hold them up, and does not spread them out to fly. View quote
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Oh Dafne, you truly had pitiless pity when you stayed my dart. View quote
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No need for death, For to wring two hearts First faith sufficed and then love. View quote
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Pity is the messenger of Love as lightning is of thunder. View quote
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Now if thou be a bondslave vile become, No wrong is that, but God's most righteous doom. View quote
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To a bad king a worse counsellor. View quote
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My torments easy, full of sweet delight, If this I could obtain,-that breast to breast Thy bosom might receive my yielded sprite. View quote
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Unfettered sentiments in simple speech. View quote
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Who scorneth peace shall have his fill of war. View quote
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For in a world so mutable and blind it's often constancy to change one's mind. (Torquato Tasso)
Yield, and sufficient glory let it be to have it said that you once fought with me. View quote
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The time for work is while the sun's light shines, but every living thing finds peace at night. View quote
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Such death makes happier end than conquests of huge realms or infinite gold. View quote
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Two inward vultures, Sorrow and Disdain. View quote
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