Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
Interpretation
Time is deceptive; it grants us moments of joy and youth but ultimately takes them away and leaves us with only the memories.
In this poignant reflection by Walter Raleigh, the quote underscores the transient nature of time and life. It speaks to the trust we place in time as it gifts us youth and happiness but ultimately leads us to the inevitable grave, where our life story concludes. The closing lines suggest a hopeful belief in resurrection and eternal life, reminding us that while time takes our physical existence, it cannot extinguish our essence or the hope for what lies beyond.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a eulogy to reflect on the life of the deceased.
Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:_x000D_ _x000D_ The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;_x000D_ _x000D_ So, when affection yields discourse, it seems_x000D_ _x000D_ The bottom is but shallow whence they come._x000D_ _x000D_ They that are rich in words, in words discover
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
If she undervalues me, _x000D_ _x000D_ What care I how fair she be?
If all the world and love were young,_x000D_ _x000D_ And truth in every shepherd's tongue,_x000D_ _x000D_ These pretty pleasures might me move_x000D_ _x000D_ To live with thee, and be thy love.
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
Modesty is the color of virtue.
The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.
If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.
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