 | James Mason Hutchings - Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) - 1888 - 578 pages
...have been more thau an ordinary man. CHAPTER XXII. THE MILTON AND BIG OAK FLAT ROUTE TO YO SEMITE. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. — EARL OF C'HESTKBFIELD'S Letters to his Son.... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...PROMPTNESS. Despatch is the soul of business. 4504 Lord Chesterfield: Letters to His Son. Feb. 5, 1750. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy...never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 4005 Lord Chesterfield : Letters to His Son. Dec. 26, 1749. PROSE — see Poetry. The walk of prose... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1889 - 934 pages
...CHAUCER— Canterbury Tales. The Clerki-s Tale. Line 61. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, anH enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness,...never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. /. EABL OF CHESTERFIELD — letters to his Son. Dec. 20, 1749. No! no arresting the vast wheel of time,... | |
 | George Eugène-Fasnacht - German language - 1890 - 274 pages
...(Sefcbdfte abjumadjen, antoortete cr : i,Weil \d[ me bis morgen uerfditebe, mas id} fyeute tfym farm!" " Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day;" that was the advice which Lord Chesterfield gave to a young man who had asked him — " How are you able to get... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 228 pages
...idleness one single moment of that small portion of time which is allotted to us in the world . . . Know the true value of time ; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it." " Are you in earnest ? seize this very minute, What you can do, or think you can, begin it."1 There... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1892 - 324 pages
...inactive turn, either in body or mind; and, in that case, the day is full long enough for every thing ; especially at Rome, where it is not the fashion, as...can do to-day. That was the rule of the famous and fortunate pensionary De Witt; who, by strictly following it found time, not only to do the whole business... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1894 - 358 pages
...idleness one single moment of that small portion of time which is allotted to us in the world . . . Know the true value of time ; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it." There is a Turkish proverb that the Devil tempts the Idle man, but the Idle man tempts the Devil. I... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...dumb, — for we have no word to speak about it. p. CARLYLE — Heroes and Hero Worship. Lecture I. romontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, q. EARL OF CHESTERFIELD — Letters to his Son. Dec. 26, 1749. No ! no arresting the vast wheel of... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - German language - 1898 - 268 pages
...аЬзшпафеп, antoortete er : „ÏOeil ici) nie bis morgen perjcfyebe, œas ici) fjeute tfjun fann!" " Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day ;" that was the advice which Lord Chesterfield gave to a young man who had asked him — " How are you able to get... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1901 - 438 pages
...devote to your graver studies with Mr. Harte ; the middle part of the day I would have employed in seeing things ; and the evenings in seeing people....the rule of the famous and unfortunate Pensionary DeWitt; who, by strictly following it, found time, not only to do the whole business of the republic,... | |
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Know the true value of time ; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination ; never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 
