 | Readers - 1839 - 428 pages
...catch you idle ? Are you, then, your own master ? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, where there " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting...little enough. Let us, then, up and be doing, and be doing to the purpose, so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth makes all things... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 246 pages
...fox catches no poultry, and that there will bo •leeping enough in the grave," as poor Richard says. "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 96 pages
...prodi;ality ;' sinee, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost tune ia lever found ajjain; and what we eall time enough, always proves little enough.' Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose : so by diligenee shall we do more with less perplexity. ' Sloth makes all hings diffieult, but industry... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 292 pages
...fox 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...in the grave, as poor Richard says. ' If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time mast be (as poor Richard says) the greatest prodigality...us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose : so by diligence shall we do more with less perplex ity. ' Sloth makes all things difficult, but industty... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1841 - 316 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...enough, always proves little enough. Let us, then, be up and doing; and be doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1841 - 300 pages
...fox catches no poultry," and " there will be sleeping enough in the grave," as Poor Richard says. " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be," as Poor Richard says, " ths Poor Richard, Introduced Fuller Abraham for this purpose. Hence it is, that Poor Richard is 10... | |
 | 1842 - 194 pages
...fox 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...than is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting that " The sleeping fox catches no poultry." " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting...enough, always proves little enough." Let us then be up and doing, and doing to the purpose : so by diligence shall we do more, with less perplexity.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 pages
...fox catches no poultry, and that There tvill 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... 
