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
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...Beware, Lorenzo ! a slow sudden death. How dreadful that deliberate surprize! Be wise to-day ; *t is 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... | |
| 1831 - 416 páginas
...influence you now to delay, must operate with redoubled power hereafter. O, then " Be wise to day, 't is madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will...plead Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life." I have now laid before you the three considerations which I proposed in the beginning of this discourse... | |
| 1853 - 1142 páginas
...lost. Bow at your Saviour's feet : seek his grace and taste his love. Do it now. "Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead : Thus oo, till wisdom is pushed out of lilV' HYMN. Oo -watch and pray ; thon canst not tell How near thine... | |
| Lindley Murray, H. T. N. Benedict - 1832 - 204 páginas
...heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall he. Be wise t6-day, 'tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent...plead; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. This is called the Heroic measure. In its simplest form it consists of five Iamhuses; hut hy the admission... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1832 - 234 páginas
...alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thon art, and all the proud shall he. Be wise to-day, 'tis madness tö defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. This is called the Heroic measure. In its simplest form it coneists of five Iamhuses ; hut hy the admission... | |
| Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 páginas
...Beware, Lorenzo .' a slow-sudden death. How dreadful that deliberate surprise .' Бe wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is pueh'd oet of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are... | |
| George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - 1832 - 122 páginas
...i,u,t,n'. u, -V t-'jtf/-u uuii-n.vuyt. «.* * c^ jr. *vx^W V* c^/ , ON PROCRASTINATION. 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... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 páginas
...may our frame consume, The immortal spirit in the skies may bloom. PROCRASTINATION. 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 Cogswell - 1833 - 368 páginas
...and live. They must touch it or die. Such is Heaven's irreversible decree. O then, " Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer, Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus oh till wisdom is push'd out of life,— Procrastination is the thief of time, Year after year it steals... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 páginas
...heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. Be wise to-day, 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent...plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. This is called the Heroic measure. In its simplest form it consists of five Iambuses ; but by the admission... | |
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