 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...catches no poultry," and that " There will be sleeping enough in the grave," as Poor Richard says. " If time be, of all things, the most precious, wasting..." 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 pages
...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...enough, always proves little enough.' Let us then up and he doing, and doing to the purpose : so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. 'Sloth... | |
 | 1851 - 112 pages
...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 - Anecdotes - 1852 - 360 pages
...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 - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,' as poor Richard says. " ' 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... | |
 | 1853 - 446 pages
...catches no poultry,' and that ' there will be sleeping enough in the grave,' as Poor Richard says. " ' 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... | |
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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... 
