Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.
Thomas HoodRead
Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep affection and commitment, suggesting that love is a daily celebration.
In this quote, Thomas Hood poetically conveys the idea that love is not limited to a single day, like Valentine's Day, but is a continuous choice and devotion that enriches every day. By calling his beloved 'mine,' he emphasizes ownership and closeness, suggesting that true love is celebrated daily through actions and feelings.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony, expressing heartfelt sentiments to your partner.
Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!
I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept.
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.
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