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... Lectures on the English Poets - Page 228by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mormon Church - 1918 - 888 pages
...world where none may shirk, Thank God for the splendor of work!" — Angela Morgan. PROCRASTINATION. "Be wise today; 'tis 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 year it steals till all are fled."... | |
| Congregational churches - 1823 - 420 pages
...they wMI return ajain, 1 nrtdres» myself in the impassioned language of Dr. Young: Be wise to day; 'tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent...plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. R. Fora notice of a revival of religion at Bethel, in the Ohoctaw nation of Indians; and of the hopeful... | |
| Mormons - 1900 - 498 pages
...winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it." PROCRASTINATION. "Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all aro fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man... | |
| Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...Line 390 in "Night I" of Edward Young's (1683-1765) Night Thoughts (1742); in context (lines 390-93): "Procrastination is the thief of time: / Year after...moment leaves / The vast concerns of an eternal scene." 17.650 (685:28-29). 4.502-3n. Philip Bcaufoy - See 17.650 (685:29). Doctor Dick - The pseudonym of... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Reference - 2004 - 320 pages
...? With the Years beyond the Flood: It is the Signal that demands Dispatch; How much is to be done ? Be wise To-day, 'tis Madness to defer; Next day the...Moment leaves The vast Concerns of an eternal Scene. If not so frequent, would not this be strange? That 'tis so frequent, This is stranger still. FEBRUARY... | |
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