Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Interpretation
This quote expresses that promises made in times of distress are often untrustworthy and can be easily retracted.
John Milton suggests that vows or commitments made when one is suffering or in pain lack sincerity and strength. Such promises, born out of despair, are often deemed invalid and may not hold up in happier or more stable times. The notion implies that real commitments should be made when one is clear of mind and heart, and not under duress.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the importance of genuine commitments in relationships.
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.
Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary,dragging home food, arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you? In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love. You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts.
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.
We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
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