If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not postpone fulfilling it; for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and yo...u would incur guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisp...rudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent was... a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,... preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next y...ear?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength.... Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What, after all, does the practicalness of life amount to? The things immediate to be done are very trivial. I could postpone them... all to hear this locust sing. The most glorious fact in my experience is not anything that I have done or may hope to do, but a transient thought, or vision, or dream, which I have had. I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. But how can I communicate with the gods, who am a pencil-maker on the earth, and not be insane?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who,... esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do, and do nothing; who even postpone the question of freedom to the question of free trade, and quietly read the prices-current along with the latest advices from Mexico, after dinner, and it may be, fall asleep over them both. What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have to regret. At most, they give only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and God-speed, to the right, as it goes by them. There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man. But it is easier to deal with the real possessor of a thing than with the temporary guardian of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »