 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly 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. FRANCIS BACON, "Of Youth and Age," essay 42, The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. Basil Montagu, vol. 1,... | |
 | David Gutmann - 1994 - 340 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...But content themselves with a Mediocrity of Success. — SIR FRANCIS BACON, 1561-1626 J. sychological changes, potentially developmental in nature, come... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 lapas
...(1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Apophthegms, no. 97 (1625). Quoting Alonso of Aragon. 2 Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Youth and Age" (1597-1625).... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1996 - 520 lapas
...extreme remedies at first, and that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, and repent too soon.' Neither have we, in the course of the observations we have made on the size and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 lapas
...too much, 35 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,... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 lapas
...the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied." — "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon." — Sir Francis Bacon "Life is most delightful when it is on the downward slope." — "Nothing is more... | |
 | John Eric Adair - 2007 - 152 lapas
...courage to think new ideas and boldness to take risks tend to go together. As Francis Bacon put it: 'Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon.' Notice that Soichiro Honda took time to go round Japan thanking all those, however humble their role,... | |
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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. 
