Betimes Quotes
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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.
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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.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Bible (Old Testament)— Proverbs13:24.
Then fly betimes, for only theyConquer Love that run away.
thomas carew— Conquest of Flight, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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
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))
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))
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.
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
— Petrarch, To Laura in Death. Canzone V, Stanza 6.
Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
hannah more— Hannah More, Florio, Part I.
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
