| 350 pages
...and Stoneman's in Paternoster Row. To give you a specimen of them. Talking about industry he says : ' Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy' and,' He that riseth late must be hot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that... | |
| Peter Adam Schenck - Cooking - 1851 - 306 pages
...to regain, if what Poor Richard says be true,— (< Lost time is never found again. He that risetli late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night." Procrastination may cause serious injury;—the proper season for committing the seed to the ground... | |
| Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...idleness I include, not mere inaction only, but all trifling occupations, and vain amusements. Franklin. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all...travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. which is spent in idle employments, or amusements that amount to nothing. Sloth, by bringing on diseases,... | |
| Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...cemeterium, wherein the living sleep above the ground as the dead do beneath. — Fuller. SLOTH. — Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all...travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. — Franklin. SLOTH. — Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the key often used... | |
| 1853 - 446 pages
...time enough, always proves little enough.' Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose, so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity....industry all easy ; and he that riseth late, must toil all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night : while laziness travels so slowly> that... | |
| Oliver Oldham - Readers (Secondary) - 1854 - 406 pages
...bad man, said, " I shall take care so to live that nobody will believe them." SLOTH versus INDUSTRY. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all...and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarcely overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...time enough, always proves little enough.' Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity....makes all things difficult, but industry all easy,' as poor Richard says ; and ' he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business... | |
| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...cursing creditors, and to charge bravely through a body of them to get to their coach Cmcley. CCCLIIL Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all...travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. — Franklin. CCCLIV. To be deprived of the person we love, is a happiness in comparison of living... | |
| William Chambers - 1856 - 444 pages
...enough, always proves little enough. Let us, then, up and bo doing, and bo doing to the purpose, so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity....things difficult, but industry all easy : and he that riscth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ;" while " laziness... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...little enough.' Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose, so by diligence shall we uo more with less perplexity. ' Sloth makes all things...industry all easy, and he that riseth late, must trot all dixy, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty... | |
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