 | Priscilla Wakefield - Children's stories - 1821 - 238 pages
...convictions of conscience, and the reproofs of a faithful counsellor. 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; The Duke of Sully, considered either in his public or private character,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 412 pages
...Lorenzo ! a slow sudden death. How dreadful that deliberate surprise ! 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...done his part ; do thine.'" MILTON. SECTION IX. On Procrastinatioft. BE wise to day ; 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is puslvd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time. Year alter year it steels, til!... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...done his part; do thine." / MH.TON SECTION IX. On Procrastination. 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...unbounded Spring encircle all. THOMSON. CHAP. XXIII. 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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...actor said, I will do this to-morrow ! Lord John Russell's Don Carlos. 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. Young's Night Tlioughts, n. 1. Procrastination is the thief of time ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...And, if a God there is, that God how great ! AGAINST PROCRASTINATION. Be wise to-dny; 'tis madness ublished by William C. Hall wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...hath done his part j do thine." MILTON SECTION IX. 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... | |
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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... 
