Enchiridion

For if you once gain time and respite, you will more easily command yourself.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)

For if you once gain time and respite, you will more easily command yourself.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)

For if you once gain time and delay, you will more easily master yourself.George Long (1890)

For if once you gain time and delay, you will find it easier to control yourself.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)