 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...than is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting that " The sleeping fox catches no poultry." " 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... | |
 | 1842 - 194 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 pages
...fox catches no poultry, and that There tvill 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 - 1846 - 320 pages
...wasting time must he (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 he doing, and doing to the purpose : so hy diligence shall ws do more with less... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...time must he (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 he doing, and doing to the purpose ; so hy diligence shall we do more with 1ess... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 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...we call time enough always proves little enough;" let us then be up and doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 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... | |
 | Advice - 1848 - 72 pages
...sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave." If time, therefore, be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. As poor Richard observes, " He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarcely overtake his... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 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... | |
| |
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... 
