From The Best Letters of William Cowper, edited with an introduction by Anna B. McMahan
TIME'S FORELOCK
"Let me give you a piece of good counsel, my cousin: follow my laudable example, -- write when you can; take Time's forelock in one hand and a pen in the other, and so make your opportunity."
From a letter to Lady Hesketh, dated Olney, April 24, 1788
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