Delay Quote by Robert Southwell

Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou…

— Thomas Adams

“When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet…

— William Shakespeare

“Had it pleased heaven To try me with affliction; had they rain'd All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head. Steep'd me…

— William Shakespeare

“Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rs Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever…

— John Milton

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

— Marcus Aurelius

And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves…

— William Wordsworth

“But art Thou come, dear Saviour? Hath Thy love Thus made Thee stoop, and leave Thy throne above The lofty Heavens, and thus Thyself…

— Anonymous

“The whiles some one did chaunt this louely lay; Ah see, who so faire thing doest faine to see, In springing flowre the image…

— Edmund Spenser

“They strive to attain their wishes by every available means, instructing and compelling themselves to dishonest and difficult acts. And when their labour is…

— Seneca

Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing…

— John Keats

“Always too eager for the future, we Pick up bad habits of expectancy. Something is always approaching; every day Till then we say, Watching…

— Philip Larkin

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles…

— Charles Inglis