Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
Interpretation
Embrace love and affection while it is still available.
This quote suggests that one should seize opportunities for love and connect with others before time runs out. It implies the urgency of appreciating love and the fleeting nature of life, encouraging people to express their feelings and cherish their relationships while they can.
In practice
A wedding toast that emphasizes the importance of love and seizing the moment.
But O the exceeding grace_x000D_ Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,_x000D_ And all his works with mercy doth embrace,_x000D_ That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,_x000D_ To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
The noblest mind the best contentment has
What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
I hate the day, because it lendeth light_x000D_ _x000D_ To see all things, but not my love to see.
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; _x000D_ For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.
When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.
Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure.
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