 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 lapas
...forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death. Maxims, cccxx. — ROCHEFOUCAULT. AGE. Weakness of Old Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Essay on Youth and Agt. — \MV.\i BACON. AGE. Youthfulness in Though gray our heads, our thoughts... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse,2 that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon,3 and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor [8] turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...drive business home to the full period, but content [9] themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly [7.] Manage : management. ' The manage of my... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the lull period,' but content themselves with the mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compouud... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 lapas
...Obiect too much, Consult too long, Adventure too little, Repent too soone, and seldome drive Businesse home to the full Period ; But content themselves with a Mediocrity of Successe. Certainly, it is good to compound Employments of both ; For that will be Good for the Present,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1870 - 524 lapas
...young men, and the way business is done is the way young men do business; for Lord Bacon says: "Old men object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and are content with a very moderate success;" and no man in these times will admit that this is the way... | |
 | 1873 - 530 lapas
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 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready4 horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. se the bitter taste of woe ; Nothing's altogether ill In the griefs of Long-ago. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...and seldom drive business home to the full period, 1 but content themselves with the mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments... | |
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. 
