 | David Thomas - 1870 - 396 pages
...Seneca, "of the shortness of time, and yet we have more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.'" Alfred the Great was one... | |
 | 1870 - 956 pages
...complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...nothing that we ought to do ; we are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. — Seneca. TIME. — An... | |
 | 1870 - 858 pages
...Seneca, "of the shortness of time ; and yet we have more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We aro always complaining that our days arc few, and acting as though there would bo no end of them."... | |
 | 1884 - 794 pages
...complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do; we i;re always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1872 - 422 pages
...complain of the shortness of time ; and yet we have more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the evil inclination. This he found a hard saying, and would rather have thrown up his prospects among... | |
 | 1873 - 46 pages
...have much more than we know what to do with.' Our lives are spent either in doing nothing ;it a 11 , or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do ; we are always complaining that our days are few, and acting u though there would be no end of them. — Senic*. A WAWT 'of occupation... | |
 | Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 pages
...FlightofTime. time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. It was said by Seneca :... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...complain of the shortness of time ; and yet we have moro than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. — Seneca. WHEN Drexelins... | |
 | W. H. Burton - 1874 - 266 pages
...waste the time which we declare to be so precious! Seneca truly says: "We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them." What need there is for the prayer, " So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 pages
...time, saith Seneca ". and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing...are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. That noble philosopher has described our inconsistency with ourselves in this particular,... | |
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WE all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do.... 
