 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...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. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we do more with less... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 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 time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality ; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...experience : the most ignorant, by necessity ; and beasts by nature. Cicero. 878. Wasting Time. — If time be of all things the most precious, wasting...we call time enough, always proves little enough. Franklin. 879. Conversation. — Let your subject, says Epictetus, be something of necessity and use... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 246 pages
...(as poor Richard says) the greatest 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 be doing, and doing to the purpose; •O by diligence shall we do more with less... | |
 | 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 time must be," as Poor Richard says, " the greatest prodigality ;" since, as he elsewhere tells us, " Lost time is... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Conduct of life - 1839 - 204 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 time must be," as Poor Richard says, "the greatest prodigality;" since, as he elsewhere tells us, " Lost time is never... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...time mast 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.' Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose : so by diligence shall we do more with less... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...poultry, and' that there will be sleeping enough in the grave,' as poor Richard says." VALUE OF TIME. " 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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 time must be," as Poor Richard says, " the greatest prodigality ;" since, as he elsewhere tells us, " Lost time is... | |
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Lost time is never found again, and what we call 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. Sloth... 
