 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...on all the drooping herbs around. Cow PER. i II* V 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... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - American poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...mental light, — 'Tis Nature's precious boon to die. PROCRASTINATION. 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...more its cherished earth ! CXI1I. AGAINST PROCRASTINATION.— Young. 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 alter year it steals, till... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...bad, So, without judgment, fancy is but mad. 'Thomson. Buckingham. 275. 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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...fatal sisters could out-spin, And, big with life's futurities, expire. 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... | |
 | William Cogswell - Charity - 1839 - 408 pages
...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 on till wisdom is push'd out of life. — Procrastination is the thief of time, Year after year it steals till... | |
 | Juvenal - Verse satire, Latin - 1839 - 572 pages
...viii. PR. qui non est hodie, eras minus aptus erit; Ov. RA 94. CAS. " 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... | |
 | Edward Young - Bible - 1839 - 300 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... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1839 - 154 pages
...statesman of new honour dreams, To-morrow death destroys his airy schemes." " He wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd qut of lite."* EXERCISES. 1. To be good is to be happy. 2. Vice brings misery. 4.... | |
 | Periodicals - 1840 - 274 pages
...while it is called to-day, at all that is really useful and important. Bo wise to-day, 'tis madness to defer ; Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. — YOUNG. LONDON : JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, WEST STRAND. Uin>o IN WEEKLY... | |
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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... 
