Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
Interpretation
Embrace love and affection while it is still available.
This quote suggests that one should seize opportunities for love and connect with others before time runs out. It implies the urgency of appreciating love and the fleeting nature of life, encouraging people to express their feelings and cherish their relationships while they can.
In practice
A wedding toast that emphasizes the importance of love and seizing the moment.
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.
Tonight the moon kisses the stars. _x000D_ O beloved,be like that to me!
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.
These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.
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