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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
John Dryden
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

john dryden

— Britannia Rediviva (1688), line 1.

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He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Bible (Old Testament)

— Proverbs13:24.

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Then fly betimes, for only theyConquer Love that run away.

thomas carew

— Conquest of Flight, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

jean de la fontaine

— Quoted in: Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts Gathered from the Roses, Clover Blossoms, Geraniums, Violets, Morning-glories, and Pansies of Literature, Christian Herald, 1915. p. 928

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If pains be to be taken to give him a manly air and assurance betimes , it is chiefly as a fence to his virtue when he goes into the world under his own conduct.

john locke

— Sec. 70 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))

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To teach him betimes to love and be good-natur'd to others, is to lay early the true foundation of an honest man; all injustice generally springing from too great love of ourselves and too little of others.

john locke

— Sec. 139 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))

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He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act II, scene 1, line 36.

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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.


— Petrarch, To Laura in Death. Canzone V, Stanza 6.

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Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.

hannah more

— Hannah More, Florio, Part I.

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Let me say "amen" betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act III, scene 1, line 22

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This morning, like the spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes.


— Antony, scene iv

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