“A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.”
Psalm 90 st. 4.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)
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English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674–1748Related quotes
“Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.”
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus<br/>rumoresque senum severiorum<br/>omnes unius aestimemus assis
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
V, lines 1–6
Thomas Campion's translation:
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love;
And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,
Let us not weigh them: Heaven's great lamps do dive
Into their west, and straight again revive,
But, soon as once set is our little light,
Then must we sleep one ever-during night.
From A Book of Airs (1601)
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Context: Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.
Fragment xxii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
“Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone
Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.”
The Authour's Dreame (1629).
"The Soul of the Sunflower" in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. XXII (October 1881), p. 942
