John Hoole: Mind

John Hoole was British translator. Explore interesting quotes on mind.

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“Ah! why so rare does cruel Love inspire
Two tender bosoms with a mutual fire?
Say, whence, perfidious, dost thou pleasure find
To sow dissension in the human mind?”

Book II, line 1
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)

“Tis often constancy to change the mind.”

"Siroes", Act I, scene viii
Translations, Dramas and Other Poems of Metastasio (1800)

“Behold the state of man's unstable mind,
Still prone to change with every changing wind!
All our resolves are weak, but weakest prove
Where sprung from sense of disappointed love.”

Book XXIX, line 1
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)