Originál: (en) Perfection is the child of Time.
Zdroj: [Hall, Joseph, The works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall, University Press, 1863, 531, anglicky]
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Three Centuries of Meditations and Vowes century III, LIX.
Contemplations, Book VI, "The Veil of Moses". Compare: "Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear", Thomas Gray, Elegy, stanza 14.
“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
Epistles, Decade III, epistle 2. Compare: "And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb./Our birth is nothing but our death begun", Edward Young, Night Thoughts, night v., line 718.
“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
Christian Moderation, introduction.
“So little in his purse, so much upon his back.”
Portrait of a Poor Gallant.
“Perfection is the child of time…”
Quo vadis? A just Censure of Travel (1617).
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 532.
