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" I lose the reality : unmindful that the present time alone is ours, the future is yet unborn, and the past is dead, and can only live (as parents in their children) in the actions it has produced. "
The golden rules of life; or, Every body's friend - Page 12
by Golden rules - 1835
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The Spectator, Volume 4

1738 - 310 pages
...more ufe to the Owner, than a Heap of Gold ' to the Man who dares not ufe it. • TO-MORROW is ftill the fatal Time when all is ' to be rectified : To-morrow comes, it goes, and (till I ' pleafe my felf with the Shadow, whilft I lofe the Re' ality ; unmindful that the prefent...
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A Collection of Select Aphorisms and Maxims: With Several Historical ...

Charles Palmer (Deputy Serjeant of the House of Commons.) - 1748 - 342 pages
...and derifion of infidels, and fink us even beneath the beafts that perifh. 523. To-morrow is frill the fatal time when all is to be rectified ; to-morrow comes, it goes, and ftill I pleafe myfelf with the fhadow, whilft I lofe the reality, unmindful that the prefent time alone...
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The Spectator, Volume 4

1778 - 336 pages
...more ufe to the owner, than a heap of gold to the '. man who dares not ufe it. ' To-morrow is ftill the fatal time when all is to be rectified : to-morrow comes, it goes, and ftill } pleafe myfelf with the fhadow, whilft 1 lofs the reality ; unmindful that the prefent time...
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The Beauties of the Spectators, Tatlers, and Guardians: Connected ..., Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1801 - 364 pages
...no more ufe to the owner, than a heap of gold to the man who dares not ufe it. " To-morrow is ftill the fatal time when all is to be rectified. To-morrow comes, it goes, and ftill I -pleafe myfelf with the fhadow, whilft I lofe the reali- ty ; unmindful that the prtfent time^...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 pages
...thus concealed, is of no more use to the owner, than a heap of gold to the man who dares not use it. * To-morrow is still the fatal time when all is to be...and still I please myself with the shadow, whilst I lose the reality : unmindful that the present time alone is ours, the future is yet unborn, and the...
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Select British Classics, Volume 14

1803 - 372 pages
...concealed, is of no more use to the owner, than a heap of gold to the • man who dares not use it. ' To-morrow is still the fatal time when all is to '...and still I '-please myself with the shadow, whilst I lose the ' reality ; unmindful that the present time alone is ' ours, the future is yet unborn, and...
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The Spectator, Volume 6

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...concealed, is of no more use to the owner, than a. heap of gold to the man who dares not use it. ' To-morrow is still the fatal time when all is to be...and still I please myself with the shadow, whilst I lose the reality : unmindful that the present time alone is ours, the future is yet unborn, and the...
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The Spectator, Volume 5

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 348 pages
...thus concealed, is of no more use to the owner than ahea) of gold to the man -who dares not use it. " To-morrow is still the fatal time when all is to be...and still I please myself with the shadow, whilst I lose the reality ; unmindful that the present time alone is ours, the future is yet unborn, and the...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 81, Part 1; Volume 109

1811 - 750 pages
...than » heap of gold to the miser who has not life dieart to make use of it. — To-morrow (a trill the fatal time when all is .to be rectified : to-morrow...and still I please myself with the shadow, whilst I i".-v the reality ; unmindful that the present time alone is ours ; the future is yet uubom; and...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index

Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...a heap of gold to the man who dares not use it. ' To-morrow is still the fatal time when all is lo be rectified. To-morrow comes, it goes, and still I please myself with the shadow, whilst I !<> .• the reality; unmindful that the present time alone is oars, the future is yet unborn, and...
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