 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...  Elegant Extracts - Page 115edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
 | 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...moment, leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live" — For ever on... | |
 | William Cogswell - Christian life - 1833 - 368 pages
...O then, " Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer, Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus oh till wisdom is push'd out of life,— Procrastination...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene." Let them be entreated, then, by the thunders of Sinai and the persuasions of Calvary, to make their... | |
 | Edward Young - Fore-edge painting - 1834 - 370 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 ;...strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...cooling and reanimating draught at the spring. ON PROCRASTINATION. BE wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ;...of a moment, leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scent Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, That all men are about to live: For ever on... | |
 | 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 ;...frequent, would not this be strange ? That 'tis so Ireiliient, this is stranger still. Of man's mirat ulous mistakes this bears The palm, " That all men... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...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...strange? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, ' That all men are about to live,' For ever on the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...plead, Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ;. Year alter year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies...frequent, would not this be strange ? That 'tis so trequent; this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, that all men are... | |
 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...pushed out of life ' Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all arc fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast...strange ? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still, Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, " That all men are about to live," For ever on the... | |
 | John Clunie - 1836 - 80 pages
...to-day; 'tis madness to deferi Next day, the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on till wisdom is pushed out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time...moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene !" O that there may be " joy in heaven among the angels of God," as, I assure you, there will be on... | |
 | Edward Young - Didactic poetry, English - 1837 - 556 pages
...slow sudden death. How dreadful that deliberate surprise! Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer: JVext day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till...strange? That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, "that all men are about to live," For ever on the... | |
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