 | Working class - 1832 - 220 pages
...meanest to gain leisure ; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful ; this leisure...the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ; for, ' A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Many, without labour, would live... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1834 - 206 pages
...thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing somethinguseful : this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ; for, ' A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Many without labor, would live by... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...meanest to gain leisure ; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Leisure is time for doing something useful ; this leisure...the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ; for Jl life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Many, without labor, would live by... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...productive, for praters may suggest an idea, if they cannot start one. The Rev. CC Cation. 253. Leisure is time for doing something useful : this leisure...will obtain, but the lazy man never; so that, as poor Kichard lays, A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Franklin, 254. Why Honor is... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...mind, 16* 186 SELECT PASSAGES than a dangerous churm that might corrupt him.—St. Evremond. Leisure is time for doing something useful: this leisure the...says, A life of leisure and a life of laziness are tn-o things.—Franklin. DCCCLXV. Mendicants.—Mendicantsj^iave great comforts; they require a good... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 96 pages
...meanest to gain leisure ; and sinee thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful : this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but tho lazy man never ; so that, as poor Riehard says, ' A life of leisure and a life of laziness are... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful : this leisure...never; so that, as poor Richard says, ' A life of leiI gure and a life of laziness are two things.' Do you imagine that sloth will afford you more comfort... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ; for a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Many, without labour, would live by... | |
 | 1842 - 194 pages
...meanest to gain leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful ; this leisure...things.' Do you imagine that sloth will afford you 14 more comfort than labor ? No ; for, as poor Richard says, 'Troubles spring from idleness, an I grievous... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...you mean to gain leisure ; and since you are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour." Leisure is time for doing something useful : this leisure...the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ; for, " A life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things. Many, without labour, would live... | |
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Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well, if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour. 
