“Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
The Younger Brother, Act III, sc. ii (published posthumously 1696).
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British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer 1640–1689Related quotes
Old Mortality, Chap. xxxiv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.”
Source: Fables
Quoted in The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage (1916) by C. A. Wynschenk Dom, p. 6
Context: God being a common good, and His boundless love being common to all, He gives His grace... to all men, Pagan and Jew, good or evil... Thus God is a common light and a common splendour, enlightening heaven and earth, and every man, each according to his need and worth.
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. X.
Context: Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.”
“Every moment lost is worth the life of a thousand men.”
Said to Braxton Bragg at Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863. As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell.
1860s
Winter, An Ode. The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787), p. 355