| Christianity - 1850 - 632 pages
...or enjoy. — if. T. Ег-апдсЫ. "TRIFLES." THE principle involved in the maxim of Franklin, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," is universally just, and susceptible of quite other applications than the philosopher... | |
| 1850 - 642 pages
...manifest to observing minds. Hence many of the sage maxims of our "proverbial philosophy," such as "Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves ;" "Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves." The principle... | |
| Saint John Henry Newman - Anti-Catholicism - 1851 - 426 pages
...let each approve himself in his own neighbourhood; if each portion is defended, the whole is secured. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. Let the London press alone; do not appeal to it; do not expostulate with it; do not flatter... | |
| John Henry Newman (card.) - 1851 - 442 pages
...each approve himself in his own neighbourhood ; if each portion is defended, the whole is secured. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. Let the London press alone ; do not appeal to it ; do not expostulate with it ; do not... | |
| George Mogridge - Children's stories, English - 1851 - 116 pages
...and profitably is harder than either. There is a saying which has a great deal of good sense in it: " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." You will do well to remember, that, though "the love of money is the root of all evil,"... | |
| Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1851 - 532 pages
...changed another sovereign, and was owed again; but, trust him, he wasn't going to be cheated out of that: take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. But still it was ditto repeated; changing, being owed, grudging, grumbling: at last he... | |
| Success - Conduct of life - 1851 - 362 pages
...there is no lack of such sayings as, "A pin a day is a groat a year ? or that we have already quoted," Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves." Perhaps the former of these maxims, which bears such strongly marked features of homelier... | |
| Thomas Hood - English wit and humor - 1852 - 258 pages
...than the jester's."— Extr.from Preface M HO OD'S OWN SELECTED PAPERS. tinrntt ILLUSTEATIONS. PAGE. " TAKE CARE OF THE PENCE, AND THE POUNDS WILL TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES" . . . . .10 OVER THE WAT ...... 23 A MODERATE INCOME . . . . . .30 THE SUBLIME AND THE... | |
| John Stoughton - 1852 - 290 pages
...will create a wise economy. As in money, so in time, we are to look chiefly to the smallest portions. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. Take care of the minutes and the hours, and years will take care of themselves. Gold is... | |
| Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 pages
...subject, as the chosen matters of investigation. In money matters it is a good piece of advice to " take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." In scientific and literary matters, it ¡8 a good piece of advice also, to take care of... | |
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