 How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.  Business - Page 375edited by - 1911 - 401 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1842 - 304 pages
...than is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting that " The sleeping fox catches no poultry." " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time...enough, always proves little enough." Let us then be up and doing, and doing to the purpose : so by diligence shall we do more, with less perplexity.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...the grave,' as poor Richard says. 'If time he of all things the most precious, wasting time must he (as poor Richard says) the greatest prodigality;'...enough, always proves little enough.' Let us then up and he doing, and doing to the purpose : so hy diligence shall ws do more with less perplexity. 'Sloth... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...the grave," as poor Richard says. "If time he of all things the most precious, wasting time must he (as poor Richard says) the greatest prodigality :"...enough, always proves little enough." Let us then up and he doing, and doing to the purpose ; so hy diligence shall we do more with 1ess perplexity. " Sloth... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," as poor Richard says. "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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1851 - 318 pages
...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...enough, always proves little enough.' Let us then up and he doing, and doing to the purpose : so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. 'Sloth... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...catches no poultry," and that " There will be sleeping enough in the grave," as Poor Richard says. " If time be, of all things, the most precious, wasting..." 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;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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