William Cowper Quotes on Time
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Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.
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Beware of desp'rate steps! The darkest day (Live till tomorrow) will have passed away.
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Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry - Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour; The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!