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.”
TORQUATO TASSOGrave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
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Love is when you don’t have to be with another person to touch their heart!
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Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
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Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay, And joy springs up e’en in the midst of fear.
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They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
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Virtue’s guard is labor; ease, her sleep.
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He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
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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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Not for no cold did freeze, Nor any cloud beguile Th’eternal flowering spring
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
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Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame
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As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
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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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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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O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees.
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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.
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