 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
 | Americans - 1859 - 80 pages
...grave. If time be above all things 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... | |
 | Sandhurst roy. military coll - 1859 - 672 pages
...forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy. Beware of little... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Apprentices - 1861 - 304 pages
..." But dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality." " Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy ; and he that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 pages
..." But dost thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality." " Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy ; and he that... | |
 | Perseverance - Biography - 1862 - 310 pages
...translated into several languages. The following short extract will give an idea of the whole — "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 some purpose ; so by diligence shall we do more, with less perplexity.'... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping <m<jugh in the grave, as Poor Richard says. " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time...elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never found again ; ami what we cull time enough, always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says. " If time be of all things the most preeious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest...tells us, Lost time is never found again ; and what we cull time enough, always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose;... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 232 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 must be the greatest extravagance. Lost time is never found again. What we call time enough, always proves... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...catches no poultry and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," as pool Uichard says. " If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time...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... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 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 as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost time is never found again ; and what... | |
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