 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 pages
...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 too little,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will not neither stop nor turn. Men of Age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both;9 for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will not neither stop nor turn. Men of Age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both;9 for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...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 too little,...success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of4o both. For that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...things of this life, when we have the least prospect of enjoying them. ATTERBURY. Men of age object t company he good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects of both; and good... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 pages
...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 too little,...success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of 40 both. For that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects... | |
 | Baptists - 1881 - 302 pages
...faults ; when we have lost them we only see their virtues. — Guesses at Truth. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. — Lord Bacon. poetic Elections. STRENGTH FOR THE DAY. STRENOTH for the iluy! At early dawn I stand... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...succession that young men may be learners, while men in ago arc actors; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followeth old men, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 324 pages
...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 too little,...success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of 40 both. For that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...life Glibblier to play. h. JOHN ABMSTBONO— On Preserving Health. Bk. II. Line 486 Men of age object o love them. m- HEXBÏ WAIU> BEETHER— Star Paper«. A Discourse of Flowers. Flowers have i. BACON— Essay XLII. Of Youth and Age. Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. j. ВЕАТПЕ—... | |
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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. 
