 He, that hath a trade, hath an estate; and he, 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, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to...  Essays and Letters - Page 75by Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1859 - 200 pages
...him to expend but he who is able to perform a day's labour. A trade is a sure road to independence. " He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honour." Among the ancient Jews, every one, however well educated, was brought up to a trade. At Sparta, thers... | |
 | Americans - 1859 - 80 pages
...poverty soon overtakes him He that lives upon hope 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 and honour. At the working man's house, hunger looks in, but dare not enter. Industry pays debts, but despair increaseth... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...gains without pains : then help hands, for I have no lands ; or if I have, they are smartly taxed. He that hath a trade, hath an estate ; and he that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor, as Poor Richard says ; but then the trade must be worked at, and the calling followed, or neither... | |
 | 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, nor the... | |
 | 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 nor the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Peter McNamara - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...honorable as any offered in aristocratic society. "He that hath a Trade hath an Estate," he wrote, and "He that hath a Calling hath an Office of Profit and Honor" (1290). Yet certain preconditions must be met before a healthy egalitarian society can form.... | |
 | Richard R. Ellsworth - Business & Economics - 2002 - 423 pages
...Poor Richard says, and He that lives upon Hope 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 and Honour. If you would be wealthy think of Saving as well as of Getting. . . . Women and Wine, Game and Deceit,... | |
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