| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Fortune blowe The tattera by, and shews their nakeduess. Procrastination. Be wise to-day ; '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... | |
| John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - Sermons, English - 1830 - 454 pages
...this fearful example warn you. Reckon not upon future periods in life. " 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... | |
| Religion - 1831 - 416 pages
...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1832 - 204 pages
...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 will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. This is called the Heroic measure. In its simplest form it consists of... | |
| George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - English language - 1832 - 122 pages
...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... | |
| Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...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... | |
| John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...to no one individual. GREGORY. 179 LESSON XCI. 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... | |
| James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pages
...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 will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. This is called the Heroic measure. In its simplest form it consists of... | |
| Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...the cooling and reanimating draught at the spring. 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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