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... The Saturday Magazine ...1842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Abraham Godshalk - 1912 - 314 páginas
...taught; And learn though late, the genuine cause of all. — Cowper ON PROCRASTINATION. 1 Be wise to-day; '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;... | |
| William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 páginas
...to Heav'n. YOUNG (OUTLINE HISTORY, § 62) PROCRASTINATION (From Night Thoughts, I.) BE wise to-day ; '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... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 páginas
...; 120 Beware, Lorenzo! a slow sudden death. How dreadful that deliberate surprise! Be wise to-day, 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. 125 Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are... | |
| Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 páginas
...'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates Eternity to man. (2) Be wise to-day : '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,... | |
| William James Dawson - 1925 - 362 páginas
...when he had gravely recited from it, for my peculiar edification, such a passage as Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent...out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time. On the cheap imitation marble mantel-shelf were the two globes, one of the physical world and the other... | |
| David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 páginas
...belong to me, Poor Pensioner on the bounties of an Hour? Night Thoughts, i, 1742 140 Trocrastination } E wise to day, '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, B1 Year after year it steals, till all are... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1928 - 406 páginas
...repartee in 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 ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1930 - 446 páginas
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| 1932 - 1210 páginas
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| Ronald Salmon Crane - 1932 - 1206 páginas
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