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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable ... - Page 150
by Mason Locke Weems - 1822 - 264 pages
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...do more with less perplexity. 8 '"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy: and, he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce...healthy, wealthy and wise,' as Poor Richard says. 9 " So that what signifies wishing and hoping for better times ? We may make these times better if...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...perplexity. ' Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy,' as poor Richard lays ; and, ' he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce...travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him,' as we read in poor Richard ; who adds, ' Drive thv business, let not that drive thee ;' and. ' early...
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The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus ...

John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...difficult, but industry all easy; and, lie that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarcely overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtake» him. Drive thy business, let not that drive the« ; and Early to bed, and early to rise,...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress ...

United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...perplexity. ' Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy,' as poor Richard says ; and, ' he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce...travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him,' as we read in poor Richard ; who adds, ' Drive thy business, let not that drive thee ;' and, ' Early...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Including a Sketch of the Rise and Progress ...

United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...perplexity. ' Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy,' as poor Richard says ; and, ' he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce...travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him,' as we read in poor Richard ; who adds, ' Drive thy business, let not that drive thee ;' and, • Early...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...to their coach. — Cowley, - cccLm. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce...travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. — Franklin. CCCLIV. To be deprived of the person we love, is a happiness in comparison of living...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...to their coach.—Cotcley. CCCLIH. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce...laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.—Franklin. CCCLIV. To be deprived of the person we love, is a happiness in comparison of living...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...do more with less perplexity. 8 " ' Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy: and, he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce...healthy, wealthy and wise,' as Poor Richard says. 9 « So that what signifies wishing and hoping for better times ? We may make these times better if...
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Practical Morality; Or, A Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1831 - 290 pages
...proves liule enough." ' Let us then up nud he doing, and doing to Iho purposc : so by diligence we shall do more with less perplexity. " Sloth makes all things...thy business, let not that drive thee ; and early to hed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," as Fuor Richard says. * Sc what signifies...
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A selection of moral lessons, natural history, Bible lessons, and poetry

Alexander Spencer - 1831 - 166 pages
...little enough. Let us then be up and doing what we know should be done. Delays are dangerous ; and he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him ; but to go to rest early, and early to...
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