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" ... 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 75
by Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 340 pages
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On the Importance of an Early Correct Education of Children: Embracing the ...

William Euen - Education - 1848 - 164 pages
...of themselves. 6. The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and there is sleeping enough in the grave. 7. Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough proves little enough. 8. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. 9. He that...
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The Literary Reader: For Academies and High Schools: Consisting of ...

Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 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,..." Lost time is never found again; and what we call tirrte enough, always proves little enough." Let us, then, up and be doing, and doing to the purpose;...
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London at table; or, How, when, and where to dine and order a dinner

1851 - 112 pages
...made of. If time be above all tbings 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. He that riseth late must trot all day, and...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1851 - 318 pages
...sleep ! forgetting, that 'the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough m the grave,' as poor Richard says. 'If time be of all things the most precious, wasting nme must be (as poor Richard says) the greatest prodigality ;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost...
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Maxims for meditation, conceits for conversation, gems of genius, pearls of ...

Maxims - 1852 - 242 pages
...leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things. Of all poverty, that of the mind is most deplorable. 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...
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A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects ...

Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...Time is the test of religion, morals, everything. Sh. The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Lost wealth may be restored by industry; the wreck of health regained by...
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Literary Anecdotes and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor ..., Volume 1

Edmund Henry Barker - Anecdotes - 1852 - 360 pages
...life is made of. The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and there will be sleeping enough in the grave. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Lost time is never found again, what we call time enough, always proves little...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 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...most precious, wasting time must be (as poor Richard •ays) the greatest prodigality ;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never found again;...
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Handbuch der nordamericanischen National-Literatur: Sammlung von ...

Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...that „the sleeping fox Catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," äs poor Richard says. „If time be of all things the most precious. wasting time must be," äs poor Richard says, „the greatest prodigality;" since. äs he elsewhere teils us, „lost time...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 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...prodigality ;' since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time ia never found again : and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.' Let us then up and...
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