I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a sense of disappointment about the lack of order or reason in life.
In this quote, Edmund Spenser expresses a deep frustration with the unpredictability and chaos of existence. Despite having been promised clarity and purpose—symbolized by 'reason for my rhyme'—the speaker feels robbed of both rhyme and reason, suggesting that life can often feel nonsensical and without explanation, leaving an individual in a state of bewilderment and disillusionment.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the unpredictability of life during a philosophical gathering.
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.
At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful.
The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.
In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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