If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality ; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Public Ledger Almanacs: For the Years 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875 - Página 131870 - 346 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that "The sleeping fox catches no poultry," and that " There will be sleeping enough in the grave,"..." Lost time is never found again; and what we call tirrte enough, always proves little enough." Let us, then, up and be doing, and doing to the purpose;... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1851 - 318 páginas
...sleep ! forgetting, that 'the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough m the grave,' as poor Richard says. 'If time be of all things the most precious, wasting nme must be (as poor Richard says) the greatest prodigality ;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost... | |
| 1851 - 112 páginas
...made of. If time be above all tbings the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Lost time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough. Sloth makes all things difficult ; but industry, all easy. He that riseth late must trot all day, and... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1852 - 360 páginas
...life is made of. The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and there will be sleeping enough in the grave. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Lost time is never found again, what we call time enough, always proves little... | |
| Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 páginas
...Time is the test of religion, morals, everything. Sh. The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Lost wealth may be restored by industry; the wreck of health regained by... | |
| Maxims - 1852 - 242 páginas
...leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things. Of all poverty, that of the mind is most deplorable. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 páginas
...than is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting, that ' the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,'...most precious, wasting time must be (as poor Richard •ays) the greatest prodigality ;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never found again;... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 páginas
...that „the sleeping fox Catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," äs poor Richard says. „If time be of all things the most precious. wasting time must be," äs poor Richard says, „the greatest prodigality;" since. äs he elsewhere teils us, „lost time... | |
| James William Gilbart - 1854 - 428 páginas
...than is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting that 'The sleeping fox catches no poultry,' and that ' there will be sleeping enough in the grave,' as poor Richard says." " But with our industry we must likewise be steady, settled, and careful, and oversee our own affairs... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 páginas
...than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting, that ' the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,'...prodigality ;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time ia never found again : and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.' Let us then up and... | |
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