"The Needless Alarm, Moral" (1794).
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
“If I ask Him to receive me,
Will He say me nay?
Not till earth, and not till heaven
Pass away.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 153.
“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
“Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,
Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.”
"Letter to Cobham", line 61. Compare: "Be wise to-day, 't is madness to defer", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, Night i. line 390
“The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.”
Speech at Birmingham, May 13, 1904.
1900s
“Pain is hard to bear," he cried,
"But with patience, day by day,
Even this shall pass away.”
All Things shall pass away, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
