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.
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, _x000D_ ...I burn each second of my life to Love _x000D_ Each second of my life burns out in Love _x000D_ In each leaping second Love lives afresh.
He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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