 | Secrets - 1882 - 74 pàgines
...grave. "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. " Lost time is never found again ; and what we call...•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.... | |
 | John Southward - 1883 - 166 pàgines
...poultry. IF time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality ; since lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. LAZINESS travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him. DRIVE thy business, let not that drive... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pàgines
...to keep. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Sloth makes all things difficult; but industry, all easy. Drive thy business ; let that not drive thee.... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1884 - 564 pàgines
...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...'the greatest prodigality;' since as he elsewhere tell us, ' Lost time is never found again ; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.'... | |
 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 pàgines
...be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest ' prodigality ;' since, as he tells us, ' Lost time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves too little enough.' Let us then be up and doing, and be doing to purpose, so by diligence we shall... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1887 - 326 pàgines
...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...time enough always proves little enough. Let us then be up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.... | |
 | 1887 - 1332 pàgines
...hence. 28. Lost time never returns. Ger. 29. Lost time and opportunities can never be recovered. 30. Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Franklin. 31. Man cannot buy time. Ger. 32. Nae man can tether time or tide. Burns. 33. Once in every... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pàgines
...Richard says. "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor VOL. in.—a Richard says, the greatest prodigality; since, as...shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth makes all tflings difficult, but industry all easy; and He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce... | |
 | 1889 - 854 pàgines
...sleeping fox catches no poultry : md that, There will be sleeping in the grave, as poor Richard says. tells us, Lost time is never found again ; and, What...enough always proves little enough. Let us, then, be up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence, shall we do more, and with less perplexity.... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1889 - 358 pàgines
...FRANKLIN. IF Time be of all things the most precious, wasting Time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost Time is never found again ; and what we call...Time enough, always proves little enough. Let us then be up and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we so move with less perplexity. Sloth makes... | |
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How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says. 
