 ... as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff" life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and...  Essays and Letters - Page 75by Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Currie (A.M.) - 1866 - 204 pages
...beast within his reach, Then starts, and seizes on the wretch.—BUTLER EXEBCISE CXLVII. INDUSTEY. " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be," as Poor Richard says, " the greatot prodigality;" since, as he elsewhere tells us, "Lost time is never found again, and what we... | |
 | Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 pages
...forgetting that "the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave." 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... | |
 | Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1869 - 382 pages
...sleep ! forgetting, that ' the sleeping fox catches no poultry,6 and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, * as poor Richard says. If time be of all things6 the most precious, 'wasting time must be (as poor Richard says) the greatest prodigality ;... | |
 | William Crawford Armor - Governors - 1872 - 602 pages
...forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. At the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...sleep! forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says. "If time be of all tilings the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Ilichard says, the greatest prodigality :... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...in sleep ! forgetting that, The sleeping fox catches no poultry ; and that, There will be sleeping in the grave, as poor Richard says. " ' If time be...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.... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1872 - 322 pages
...and that " there will be sleeping enough in the grave." 152 gality ;"b since, as we are again told, " Lost time is never found again ; and what we call...little enough." Let us, then, up and be doing, and be doing to the purpose; so, by diligence,0 shall we do morewith less perplexity .d 4. Sloth makes... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...that the " sleeping fox catches no poultry," and that " there will be sleeping enough in the grave ? " "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality;" since, as we are told, " Lost time is never found again; and what we call... | |
 | William Darrah - 1875 - 200 pages
...is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting that " there will be sleeping enough in the grave." 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 not it drive thee.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 pages
...bright." " But dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality." " Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy ; and he that... | |
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