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All the Netherlands would be then formed into a secundogeniture for Spain, and the first sovereign would be the husband of a French princess. Even as an object of ambition, the prize to be secured by so much procrastination and so much treachery was paltry.
We learn what could not have been new even in 1579, that 'in misery it is a great comfort to have a companion; that 'a new broom sweepeth clean; that 'delays breed dangers; that 'nothing is so perilous as procrastination; that 'a burnt child dreadeth the fire; that it is well not to make comparisons 'lest comparisons should seem odious; that 'it is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen; that 'many things fall between the cup and the lip; and that 'marriages are made in heaven, though consummated on earth. With these old friends come others, not altogether familiar of countenance, and quaintly archaic in their dress: 'It must be a wily mouse that shall breed in the cat's ear; 'It is a mad hare that will be caught with a tabor, and a foolish bird that stayeth the laying salt on her tail, and a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. Lyly would sometimes translate a proverb; he does not tell us that fine words butter no parsnips, but says, 'Fair words fat few, which is delightfully alliterative, but hardly to be accounted an improvement.
Not that these things in particular were his matter of meditation now; he had wanted, at the end of his walk, to sit apart a little and think and had been doing that for twenty minutes, even though as yet to no break in the charm of procrastination. But he had looked without seeing and listened without hearing: all that had been positive for him was that he hadn't failed vaguely to feel.
The offer is also accompanied by a declaration that this indemnification is not founded on any reason of strict justice, but is made as a special favor. One alleged cause for procrastination in the examination and adjustment of our claims arises from an obstacle which it is the duty of the Spanish Government to remove.
She shook her head to the last, and murmured over and over again, "There is only one right way, and no persuasion on earth will ever avail to turn me aside from it." The Truth had made her Free, and she was very confident of it. At last, all other means failing, Alan fell back on the final resort of delay. He saw much merit in procrastination. There was no hurry, he said.
"A thief among us?" "A regular Galloping Dick. I'm a thief myself, for that matter." "You?" she drew away from me a bit. "Yes. My name is Procrastination." "Ah, my grave Capuchin, we do not steal time; we merely waste it. But is what you tell me true?" "I am very sorry to say it is. The jewels were worth something like ten thousand dollars." "Merciful heavens!"
The eye does not glimpse the last face, far out beyond the faint horizon of the panorama. . . . The vista is unending." Yes, the apostolate among the Ruthenians is, we claim, a necessity of the hour; its possibilities are beyond realization. Procrastination in this matter is nothing short of treason and will prove a disaster to the Ruthenians, and to the Church.
It was well to have heard, without procrastination, what he had to say; for next morning, at a little past four o'clock, he died. A nurse who had been called in from the county infirmary, said he made a very happy ending.
This choked up all the slander of the town, and directed it into one channel upon my devoted head. Some said I 'wasna sound, and all agreed I 'was nae better than I should be, while the zealous clergyman came to my father, expressing his fears that 'his son was in a bad way. For this, too, am I indebted to procrastination.
A bridge once connected it with the road on the opposite bank, but it was carried away three or four years ago, and its ragged butments stand as a monument of procrastination, while the stream is crossed by means of a flatboat and a cable. In front of the hotel, on the slight slope to the river, is a meager grove of locusts.
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