 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1839 - 276 pages
...ourselves ; and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan , At fifty, chides his inf imous delay ; Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves,... | |
 | JOHN FORBES, EDITOR - 1842 - 632 pages
...been said in л moral sense is equally applicable in a dielet^ one : " At thirty man suspects himself a fool— Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Resolves, and re-resolves, and dies the same." The candle cannot be burned at both ends without double-quick... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - Medicine - 1844 - 28 pages
...the cradle to the tomb, is strewn with broken vows and promises. " At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan : At fifty chides his infamous delay — Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resolves;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspect» himself ed wait ; Stern famine guards the solitary coast, And winter barricades the realms of Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, pur fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself pb . Poshes bis prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought ¡' ReeoJres, and re-resolves;... | |
 | Baptists - 1845 - 866 pages
...new path ? Oh, if the power were but as strong as the wish ! But, " At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay — Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, Ip all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, 1 Defer, delay, procrastinate — thus differ; to delay is to hold back in general : to defer, to put... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - English poetry - 1904 - 618 pages
...ourselves, and only wish, As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise, At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ; In all the magnanimity of thought, Resolves, and re-resolves... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...complicate, how wonderful is man. YOUNG, Night Thoughts, I, lines 68, 69 At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, ana re-resolves;... | |
 | Thomas Colley - Bible and spiritualism - 1907 - 168 pages
...aimlessly round, and work no profit either to self or neighbour. " At thirty man suspects himself to be a fool, Knows it at forty and reforms his plan. At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought resolves and and re-resolves,... | |
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At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same. 
