7 William Cowper Quotes on Time

William Cowper quotes on time

15. Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

16. Beware of desp'rate steps! The darkest day (Live till tomorrow) will have passed away.

17. Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry - Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

21. What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

26. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour; The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

76. From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.

83. O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!