 | Joseph Addison - 1901 - 208 pages
...natural dimensions, by applying ourselves diligently to the pursuit of knowledge. The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are...wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it. How different is the view of past life, in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom, from that... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 518 pages
...up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. . . . The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are...wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it. How different is the view of past life, in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom, from that... | |
 | William Peacock - 1903 - 408 pages
...day, nay, a single moment, appear to any of his creatures as a thousand years. The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas as those of a fool are...wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it. How different is the view of past life, in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom, from that... | |
 | Abram N. Coleman - 1903 - 310 pages
...honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. Goethe. 8. The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. Addison. 9. Know the true value of time ; search, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...he taxes our health, limbs, faculties, strength, and features.— J. Foster. The hours of a wise man ore a danger ; a coward during the time ; and a courag hia passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it ; so is that... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...he taxes our health, limbs, faculties, strength, and features.— J. Foster. The hours of a wise man . I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of hie passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it ; so is that... | |
 | Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - 1914 - 514 pages
...Spectator, a journal whose articles were written mostly by Addison and Steele: " The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions." " I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 pages
...ourselvesjdiligently to the pursuits of knowledge. " ~ ~*^* /The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, those of a fool are by his passions : the time of...wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it. How different is the view of past life, in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom, from that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1926 - 40 pages
...of Knowledge. The Hours of a wise Man are lengthened I by his Ideas, as those of a Fool are by his I Passions: The Time of the one is long, because he...distinguishes every Moment of it with useful or amusing Thought; or in other Words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying... | |
 | Eric S. Rabkin - 1979 - 497 pages
...Dimensions, by applying ourselves diligently to the Pursuits of Knowledge. The Hours of a wise Man are lengthened by his Ideas, as those of a Fool are...distinguishes every Moment of it with useful or amusing Thought; or in other Words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying... | |
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The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it ; so is that... 
