 | William Mathews - Success - 1903 - 442 pages
...Bacon justly complains of them that through fastidiousness, timidity, or mental slowness they object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home. The world was not made for slow, squeamish, timid people, but for those who act instantaneously and... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...acknowledge or retract them — 30 like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...men may be learners, while men in age are actors; 5 and, lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...many fancy they have experience simply localise they have grown old. — Stanislaui. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon. and seldom drive busmen« home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. — ilticoii.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...good to compound Employments of both5; For that will be Good for the Present, 4° because the Vertues6 of either Age may correct the defects of both ; And good for Succession7, that Young Men may be Learners, while Men in Age are Actours; And lastly, Good for Externe... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1909 - 360 pages
...acknowledge or retract them; like an unready8 horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,4 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. 1 Deceiveth. 8 Are reckless in innovating.... | |
 | Max freiherr von Waldberg - German literature - 1913 - 374 pages
...sit", die Reynolds zum Vergleiche mit den folgenden Sätzen Bacons in Ess. XLII (p. 300) heranzieht: .„Certainly it is good to compound employments of...men may be learners while men in age are actors;" etc. Plutarch sagt 1. с. p. 790 D: „Ti¡v dé TtoKiTeíav au TOVÇ ytQOvras anoßakKovaav àvani^n^aad-ai... | |
 | German literature - 1913 - 582 pages
...sit", die Reynolds zum Vergleiche mit den folgenden Sätzen Bacons in Ess. XLII (p. 300) heranzieht: „Certainly it is good to compound employments of...men may be learners while men in age are actors;" etc. Plutarch sagt 1. cp 790 D: „Trjv de noKitüav äei roi-g ytQOVcag aftoßütäovaav avani^n'ka.a&ai... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 678 pages
...to express, or rather to obscure, the ideas in these three lines from Bacon : — "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." 1 His works abound in illustrations, analogies, and striking imagery ; but, unlike the great Elizabethan... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 672 pages
...to express, or rather to obscure, the ideas in these three lines from Bacon: — "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." 1 His works abound in illustrations, analogies, and striking imagery; but, unlike the great Elizabethan... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1914 - 224 pages
...would guard against this worse array of faults, of which Bacon speaks so feelingly : "Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...home to the full period, but content themselves with the mediocrity of success." The wise Erasmus was never wiser than when, replying to the question, "How... | |
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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. 
