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.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.
Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.
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