 | Readings - Business - 1866 - 196 pages
...you can. A man may fight duels all his life if he is disposed to quarrels, DON'T BE ASHAMED OF TRADE. HE that hath a trade, hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling, hath a place of profit and honour. A ploughman on his legs, is higher than a gentleman on his knees. ADVANTAGE... | |
 | William H. Ablett - Commerce - 1867 - 94 pages
...will die fasting. There are no gains without pains ; then help hands, for I have no lands,' or if I have they are smartly taxed. ' He that hath a trade...that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour,' as poor Richard says ; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed,... | |
 | Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 pages
...upon Fortune.] " There are no gains without pains ; then help, hands, for I have no lands ; or if I have, they are smartly taxed ;" " He that hath a trade,...that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honour ;'' but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...will die fasting/ ' There are тю gaine without pains; then help hands, for I have no lands;' or if I e not a moment before I return my most tender and warm thanks to the ; %nd he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor/ as Poor Richard says ; but then the... | |
 | Education - 1927 - 506 pages
...' ' are : But dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for 'hat's the stuff life is made of. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a railing hath an office of profit and honor. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much... | |
 | Herbert A. Applebaum - Social Science - 1992 - 664 pages
...quote, which retains the familiar term calling, which was used so extensively by Luther and Calvin. He that hath a Trade hath an Estate, and He that hath a Calling hath an office of Profit and Honour; but then the Trade must be worked at, and the Calling well followed, or neither the Estate,... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...for I have no Lands, or if I have, they are smartly taxed. And, as Poor Richard likewise observes, He that hath a Trade hath an Estate; and he that hath a Calling, hath an Office of Profit and Honour, but then the Trade must be worked at, and the Calling well followed, or neither the Estate... | |
 | Paul Bernstein - Political Science - 1997 - 380 pages
...America. In his famous "Way to Wealth," a preface to "Poor Richard Improved for 1758," Franklin noted that "he that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that...hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor." He went on to advise that "leisure is time for doing something useful" (Greene, Settlement to Society,... | |
 | Richard Deforest Erickson - Psychology - 1994 - 108 pages
..."Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit an honor; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...will die fasting\ and '//" you would hare a faithful Servant, and one that you like, serve yourself \ and ''He that hath a Calling hath an Office of Profit and Honour1 . The ethic Poor Richard preaches is appropriate to maintaining oneself at a subsistence level.... | |
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Richard likewise observes, he that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling well followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to... 
