Spera Quotes
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Un male incerto provoca inquietudine, perché, in fondo, si spera fino all'ultimo che non sia vero; ma un male sicuro, invece, infonde per qualche tempo una squallida tranquillità.
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More Spera Quotes
Brama assai, poco spera e nulla chiede.
torquato tasso— He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
— Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme, II. 16.
Ne l'onde solca, e ne l'arena semina,E'l vago vento spera in rete accogliereChi sue speranze fonda in cor di femina.
jacopo sannazaro— Translation: He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes on the heart of woman.
— Ecloga Octava; "Plough the sands" found in Juvenal, Satires, VII. Jeremy Taylor, Discourse on Liberty of Prophesying (1647), Introduction.
Brama assai, poco spera, e nulla chiede .
torquato tasso— He full of bashfulness and truth,
Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought.Gerusalemme Liberata Bk. II, stanza 16 (1580)Translation by Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recovery of Jerusalem (1844) vol. 1, p. 100. Translation first published 1600.
