tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of... Elegant Extracts - Página 115editado por - 1809Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Henry T. Loomis - 1902 - 284 páginas
...sight. wrist, n. The joint which unites the hand to the arm, consisting of eight small bones. LESSON 57. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after...of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scheme. — Young. el-e-men'-ta-ry, a. Simple; consisting of a single element. cm-bSl'-lIsh,T/.A To... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 páginas
...verse. The wellknown lines on Procrastination are in his best manner : 'Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ;...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the... | |
| John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 618 páginas
...; 't is madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time...If not so frequent, would not this be strange? That 't is so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, " That... | |
| Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 páginas
...— Hazlitt. He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. — Confucius. Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year...of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty,... | |
| Charles John Smith - 1904 - 800 páginas
...It is to delay, defer, or postpone through indolence or general unwillingness to commence action. " Procrastination is the thief of time. Year after year...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene." YOUNG. PROLONG (I/at, prolongare) and PROTRACT (Lat. protrahere, part, pro.'racttis) differ from the... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1906 - 628 páginas
...slow sudden death. How dreadful that deliberate surprise ! Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer ; J Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on,...strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger stilL Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, 'That all men are about to live, For ever on the... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 páginas
...deliberate surprise ! Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; 290 Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination...strange? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, "That all men are about to live, Forever on the brink... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 páginas
...deliberate surprise I Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; ago Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life, ^Procrastination...thief of time; -^ Year after year it steals, till all arc fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. If not so frequent,... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 páginas
...to-day; 'tis madness to defer: 20 Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time;...all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves 25 The vast concerns of an eternal scene. If not so frequent, would not this be strange? That 't is... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 páginas
...deliberate surprise! Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer: 20 Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year...all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves 25 The vast concerns of an eternal scene. If not so frequent, would not this be strange? That 't is... | |
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