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.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a longing for a pure and youthful love that is free from deceit.
In this quote, the speaker yearns for a world where love is youthful, truth is universally recognized, and pleasures are so enticing that they could draw him to live passionately with his beloved. It reflects the idealistic desire for a romantic relationship untainted by the harsh realities of life, suggesting that true love could thrive in an honest and joyful existence.
In practice
In a wedding speech to express the beauty of young love.
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.
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.
If she undervalues me, _x000D_ _x000D_ What care I how fair she be?
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.
No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.
When I say the word You, I mean _x000D_ a hundred universes.
The other one he loved like a slave, like a madman and like a beggar. Why? Ask the dust on the road and the falling leaves, ask the mysterious God of life; for no one knows such things. She gave him nothing, no nothing did she give him and yet he thanked her. She said: Give me your peace and your reason! And he was only sorry she did not ask for his life.
But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
To know the pain of too much tenderness
No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.
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