Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame
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Torquato Tasso24 quotes“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.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay, And joy springs up e’en in the midst of fear.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso Love is when you don’t have to be with another person to touch their heart!
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso 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.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso Any time not spent on love is wasted.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso For when last need to desperation driveth, Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso Lost is the time that you don’t spend for love.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso 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 TassoTorquato Tasso A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso Not for no cold did freeze, Nor any cloud beguile Th’eternal flowering spring
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
Torquato TassoTorquato Tasso True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.
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How strange that our hearts heal from the same thing that broke it -love.
Cailin HargreavesCailin Hargreaves The peak of intensity is numbness not emotionless.
Anamika GargAnamika Garg She is everything and nothing at all.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole She built her castle at rock bottom.
Harriet SelinaHarriet Selina Keep growing into yourself.
Sophia JoanSophia Joan They tell you to be grateful for what you have. But you are also allowed to be sad for what you have lost.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura what the sky is to a bird is like a dream for a dreamer.
Safna SulaimanSafna Sulaiman The Red Rose on my grave shows once I was in love.
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More on delight
Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life’s most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
Lewis GrizzardLewis Grizzard I am very busy delighting in the lord. The lord is very busy with the desires of my heart.
Carisa DownsCarisa Downs To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another’s happiness as one’s own.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
John of the CrossJohn of the Cross She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure.
Steve MaraboliSteve Maraboli