All for love, and nothing for reward.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the selfless nature of true love, where actions are taken for the sake of love itself, rather than for personal gain.
Edmund Spenser's quote captures the essence of selfless love, indicating that genuine expressions of love do not seek any rewards or recognition in return. It suggests that true love is about giving and caring for others without expecting anything back, highlighting the purity and nobility of loving someone for their sake alone.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to highlight the importance of selfless love in a marriage.
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.
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
Yet, she said to herself, form the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreaths heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this--love; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also beautiful and necessary.
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!
I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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