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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... "
The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. : To ... - Page 14
by Edward Young - 1750 - 326 pages
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The Saturday Magazine ...

1842 - 1008 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. — Youxo. THOSB who have been accustomed to consider the fdpsy...
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Memorials of Deceased Members of the Society of Friends

Society of Friends. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting - 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...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 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,...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 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...
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A school grammar of the English language

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...
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Similitudes [compiled by B.S.].

Similitudes, B. S. - 1882 - 136 pages
...night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. Archbishop Tiltolson. Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. PROCRASTINATION is the thief of time, Young. a a a a a a o a a TTAPPINESS...
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Outlines of the Art of Elocution

James L. Ohlson - 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...
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In Time of War: a Tale of Paris Life ...

James Francis Cobb - 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...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English and American Poetry from Chaucer to ...

Edwin O. Chapman - 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...
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Gems for the young from favourite poets, ed. by R. Mulholland

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...
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