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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 which ... - Page 16
by Edward Young - 1775 - 388 pages
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The memoirs of the late miss Emma Humphries, with a series of letters to ...

Timothy East - 1817 - 246 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."LETTER II. JF thc objections which arc sometimes adMinced to deter...
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Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ...

1817 - 314 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. If not so frequent, would not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent,...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 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 men...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 7

John Aikin - 1821 - 412 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 Hie vast concerns of an eternal scene. If not so frequent, would not this be strange .' That 't is...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 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. 8. Of man's miraculous mistakes, this bears For ever on the brink...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 274 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. If not so frequent, would not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent,...
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The English Reading Book in Verse: Adapted to Domestic and to School Education

William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pages
...scene. I'ROCRASl'INATION.' Youftg* 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 men...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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 ah eternal scene. Of man's miraculous mistakes this bears The palm, " That all men...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...life. Young's Night Tlioughts, n. 1. 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. Ibid. DESPAIR. Methinks we stand on ruin ; Nature shakes About us...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 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. If not so frequent, would not this be strange ? That 'tis so frequent,...
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