 | Americans - 1859 - 80 pages
...to-day. Let not the sun look down and sny, Inglorious, here we list. The cat in gloves catches no mice. Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Troubles spring from idleness, and grevious toils... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable. 11. " Methinks I hear some of_you say : ' Must a tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says : Employ thy time well, man afford himself no leisure ?' I will tell thee, mj •if thou meanest to gain leisure; and since... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1860 - 342 pages
...weak-handed: but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones ; and by diligence and patience the mouse ate...two the cable ; and little strokes fell great oaks." " Early to bed, and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." Here is the genuine gold... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Apprentices - 1861 - 304 pages
...weak-handed ; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones ; and by diligence and patience the mouse ate...two the cable ; and little strokes fell great oaks." " Early to bed, and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." Here is the genuine gold... | |
 | Elements - Success - 1862 - 246 pages
...mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry." " One to-day is worth two to-morrows." " Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour." He once addressed the following counsel to a young... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...much to be done for yourself, your family, your country, and your king. ' Constant dropping wears away stones; and by diligence and patience the mouse ate...leisure ? ' I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Eichard says : ' Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and, since thou art not sure... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...strokes fell great oaks,'" as poor Richard says in his Almanack, the year I cannot just now remember. * Methinks I hear some of you say, " Must a man afford...no leisure ?" — I will tell thee, my friend, what pool Richard says : " Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure; and ,since thou art not... | |
 | 1864 - 422 pages
...weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects ; for "constant dropping wears away stones," and "by diligence and patience the mouse...the cable ;" and, " little strokes fell great oaks." — Franklin. TO A BUTTERFLY. WRITTEN ON A SABBATH MORNING. ON thy beds of clover playing, Pretty insect,... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...weak-handed ; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects ; for ' Constant dropping wears away stones ; and by diligence and patience the mouse ate...if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful; this... | |
 | Apprentices - 1865 - 138 pages
...weakhanded : but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones; and by diligence and patience the mouse ate...two the cable; and little strokes fell great oaks." " Early to bed, and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." Here is the genuine gold... | |
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Methinks I hear some of you say, 'Must a man afford himself no leisure?' I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. 
