 | 1885 - 452 páginas
...like sma.ll change ; it flows A thousand different ways, and throws Thoughts into circulation.—ANON. NEVER suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of too many irons in the fire conveys an abominable error. You cannot have too many —poker, tongs, and all: keep them all going.— Dr. Adam... | |
 | 1909 - 474 páginas
...untruth — you cannot have too many — poker, tongs and all, keep them going. I have lived to know that the great secret of human happiness is this : Never suffer your energies to stagnate." Ж Ж 7 fb Veneer Manufacture and Use VVOOD VxRAr 1 The annual federal report on the statistics of... | |
 | 1883 - 418 páginas
...necessary, else it had not been done. — A dam Clarice. " I HAVE lived," said Dr. Adam Clarke, " to know that the great secret of human happiness is this, never suffer your energies to stagnate. Tb« old adage of ' too many irons in the fire ' conveys an untruth. You cannot have too many : poker,... | |
 | 1892 - 298 páginas
...overcrowded. They say, "One thing at a time." But Dr. John Todd wrote to yonng persons as follows : "The old adage of too many irons in the fire conveys an abomnable lie ; keep them all in, poker, tongs and all." And then he would proceed very deliberately... | |
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I have lived," said Dr. Adam Clarke, " long enough to know that the great secret of human happiness is this : never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of " too many irons in the fire, 
