Stanza 4.
An Excelente Balade of Charitie
“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.”
“Count not that thou hast lived that day, in which thou hast not lived with God.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 117.
Queen Elinor in Rosamond (c. 1707), Act III, sc. ii.
Context: Every star, and every pow'r,
Look down on this important hour:
Lend your protection and defence
Every guard of innocence!
Help me my Henry to assuage,
To gain his love or bear his rage.
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
Chill'd with tears,
Kill'd with fears,
Endless torments dwell about thee:
Yet who would live, and live without thee!
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, HATING ONESELF
2009, Cartias in Vertitate (29 June 2009)
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
Swenson, 1959, p. 28
1840s, Either/Or (1843)
“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.”
Source: Quaestiones disputatae: De caritate (ca. 1270) http://dhspriory.org/thomas/QDdeVirtutibus2.htm#4
“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”
IV, 31
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
8
Variant translation: No pleasure is itself a bad thing, but the things that produce some kinds of pleasure, bring along with them unpleasantness that is much greater than the pleasure itself.
Sovereign Maxims
