 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 256 pages
...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 arc fledj And, to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 2 Of man's... | |
 | Timothy East - 1828 - 246 pages
...egregiously absurd, might seem to verge on insanity, what shall we say of that procrastinating spirit which, to the mercies of a moment, leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. As you, Mr. Linger, have opened your own case, and begged advice, I shall now offer, with all... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...yeais ago, and have several things to finish, which I put off to twenty years hence. Suift to Pope. Procrastination is the thief of time, Year after year...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Young. PRO'CREATE,t>. а.-ч Fr. procréer; Lat. PRO'CREANT, adj. I procreo, procréons. To PROCREA'TION,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...will plead ; ifhus on, till wisdom is push d out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time. Ve.ir after year it steals, till all are fled; And to the...concerns of an eternal scene. Of man's miraculous nvstiikes, this bear The .palm, "That all men arc about to five: & For ever on the brink of being born.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 216 pages
...till all are fled ; And, to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 2. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm,...to live :" For ever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves the compliment to think, They one day, shall not drivel ; and their pride On this reversion,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...all ; • For God towards thee hath done his part ; do thine. UILTOl SECTION IX. On procrastination. Procrastination is the thief of time. Year after year...this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live : " Forever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves the compliment to think, They one day, shall... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 618 pages
...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 ; Year after...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. If not so frequent, would not this be strange? That 't is so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 pages
...— 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,... | |
 | 1904 - 542 pages
...scene. 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 all men are about to live," Forever on the brink of being born. All pay themselves the compliment to think They one day shall not... | |
 | S. A. Richmond - 1904 - 572 pages
...madness to defer. Each day the fatal precedent will plead. Thus on till wisdom is pushed out of life." Procrastination is the thief of time. Year after year it steals till all are gone, and to the mercy of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.... | |
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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... 
