Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. Ecclesiastes 11:6
“Sow your seed in the morning and do not cease in the evening hour. The morning hour is the young childhood of man, and evening hour is old age. I am speaking with you personally, so that you will not be ashamed. I will sow in you the Word of God, the seed of truth and life from the morning hour to the evening hour.
Peter of Alexandria (c. 300) in Homilies on Riches 1:6-7. TCH 97-98.