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" Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him... "
Selections from Jeremy Taylor [and others] designed to assist in forming the ... - Page 358
edited by - 1840
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The Child's own book

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...
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The Gardener's Text-book: Containing Practical Directions Upon the Formation ...

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...
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A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects ...

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,...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

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...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 33

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...
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Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and ...

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...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His ...

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...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 2

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...
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The Moral Class-book

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...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

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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