Top 33 Torquato Quotes
#3. 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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#4. None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
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#5. True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does
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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it.
David Kay
#10. The text, written in Latin, was inspired by a fifteenth-century chef known as Maestro Martino and was called De honesta voluptate et valitudine, On honest pleasures and good health.
Bill Buford
#12. Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.
Nathan Filer
#16. GENESIS 22. After these things k God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." 2. He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to l the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.
Anonymous
#17. Not for no cold did freeze,
Nor any cloud beguile
Th'eternal flowering spring
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#19. Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
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#20. The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
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#21. Then amongst flowers and springs,
Making delightful sport,
Sat lovers without conflict, without flame
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#22. 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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#23. O happy, golden age!
Not for that rivers ran
With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees
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#24. Read, whilst you arm you; arm you, whilst you read.
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#25. Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
T. Berry Brazelton
#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. He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
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#28. As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
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#31. Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!
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#32. Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts; mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts.
Immanuel Kant
#33. My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
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