Top 36 Tasso Quotes
#2. 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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#3. None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
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#4. The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once ... I only wish that [the Americans] had also had, say, three carriers at Hawaii ...
Isoroku Yamamoto
#5. Agatha's last case had concerned a Sweeny Todd of a murderer over at Winter Parva.
M.C. Beaton
#6. True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does
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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
Edward De Bono
#11. Once I learned how to talk, personally, by myself to any number of people, which means do radio without talking to anyone in particular on the air - I just found that my brain became very free to engage in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of doing what I do.
Marc Maron
#13. Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
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#14. It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everything about it. As a child, I used to get so excited about performing, I'd get the giggles.
Hattie Morahan
#15. Hadst thou but tasted once the thousandth part
Of joys, which bless the loved and loving heart,
Your words repentant and your sighs would prove,
Lost is the time which is not past in love.
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#16. Even while it's true that we are tied to our molecules and proteins and neurons - as strokes and hormones and drugs and microorganisms indisputably tell us - it does not logically follow that humans are best described only as pieces and parts.
David Eagleman
#17. 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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#18. Not for no cold did freeze,
Nor any cloud beguile
Th'eternal flowering spring
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#19. I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.
Brent Spiner
#20. Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!
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#21. I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.
Bernard Baruch
#23. As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
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#24. The present destruction of Europe would not be complete and thorough had the German people not accepted freely [the Nazi] plan, participated voluntarily in its execution and up to this point profited greatly therefrom
Raphael Lemkin
#25. He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
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#26. 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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#27. Read, whilst you arm you; arm you, whilst you read.
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#29. We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness.
David Foster Wallace
#30. We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.
Susan Davis
#31. Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.
Jan C. Ting
#32. O happy, golden age!
Not for that rivers ran
With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees
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#33. 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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#34. Then amongst flowers and springs,
Making delightful sport,
Sat lovers without conflict, without flame
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#35. The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
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#36. Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
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