 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 lapas
...them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult top long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,' 9 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 lapas
...and retain the good things of this life, when we have the least prospect of enjoying them. ATTERBURY. 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 lapas
...errors) will not acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. 35 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 40 both. For that will be good for the present, because... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 562 lapas
...On Youth and Age, what can be truer, what can be more novel or more eloquent, than this sentence ? " Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." What he says Of Beauty is less considerate. Barrow. I do not wonder at it : Beauty is not stript in... | |
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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. 
