 | Hal A. Lingerman - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 pages
...the greatest prodigality. Lost time is never found again; what we call time enough always proves too little enough; let us then up and be doing, and doing...By diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. Benjamin Franklin Meditation Today you can tune in to the sense of time, the space of opportunity.... | |
 | Lillian Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 pages
...review. Victor Hugo Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. 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... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 624 pages
...in which his adages were strung together and put in the mouth of an old man called Father Abraham. If Time be of all things the most precious, wasting...us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so by Diligence shall we do more with less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry... | |
 | Robert Major - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 354 pages
...doing... He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. . . If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality» [95-96], disait déjà Franklin. Mais le travail doit être appuyé par... | |
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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... 
