 | Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting - Quakers - 1843 - 368 pages
...the capability of reflection ! " 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 an eternal scene." In the following short Memoir is presented to the reader a simple... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...till wisdom in pushed out of life. I Procrastination is the thief of time ; Tear after year it steals, cquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distre vast concerns of an eternal scene. If not so frequent, would not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...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 an eternal scene. " Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears The palm, ' That all... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1846 - 144 pages
...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 an eternal scene. PROSODY. ( 1 ) PHOSODY* is that part of Grammar which teaches the... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...life. YOUNG'S Night Thought!. 5. 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 an eternal scene. YOUNG'S Night Thoughta. 6. Think not to-morrow still shall be your... | |
 | James Francis Cobb - Paris (France) - 1883 - 428 pages
...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 an eternal scene." E. YouNG. IN Germany, the great festival of the year, to which... | |
 | James L. Ohlson - Elocution - 1883 - 154 pages
...majestic train." — Milton. ' ' 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 an eternal scene." — Young. "When Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes, First... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 pages
...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 an eternal scene. Edward Young, A SUMMER MORNING. WITH quicken'd step Brown night... | |
 | Gems - 1884 - 408 pages
...till wisdom is pushed 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 an eternal scene. If not so frequent, would not this be strange ? — That 'tis so... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 232 pages
...till wisdom is pushed 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 an eternal scene. If not so frequent, would not this be strange t That 'tis so frequent,... | |
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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... 
