Quote#Wisdom
"I've lost a day!"—the prince who nobly cried
Quote byEdward Young · 1683–1765
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Night II, Line 99. Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: "Once at supper, reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that memorable and justly admired saying, ‘My friends, I have lost a day!'" Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Cæsars (translation by Alexander Thomson)..
English (original)
"I've lost a day!"—the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown.
— Edward Young
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Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up—and we are gone.
Life is the desert, life the solitude; Death joins us to the great majority.
Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
In records that defy the tooth of time.
Great let me call him, for he conquered me.
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue.