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The Nursery Rhymes of England - Page 72
1858 - 333 pages
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Moral and Historical Poems, Issue 165

Thomas Walker (poet.) - 1870 - 270 pages
...Would you well have your business done you must go, If not you can send, then in time you will know ; And he that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive, For the eye of the master does much more work Than both his hands would if he worked like a Turk ;...
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The Thorough Business Man: Memoirs of Walter Powell, Merchant, Melbourne and ...

Benjamin Gregory - Australia - 1871 - 436 pages
...laboriousness which he had learnt in the forest clearings, where, if anywhere, the proverb holds good, — " He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive." He kept steadily in view the object of his ambition r to rise in the world, and to raise his parents...
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The Poetry Corner

Arnold B. Cheyney - Education - 1982 - 128 pages
...Is like a garden full of weeds; For when the weeds begin to grow, Then doth the garden overflow. It He that would thrive Must rise at five; He that hath...plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; For want of the shoe, the horse was lost; For want of the horse,...
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Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written ...

Benjamin Franklin - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 90 pages
...you shall have Corn to sell and to keep. Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him. He that by the Plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive. Knaves & Nettles are akin ; stroak 'em kindly, yet they'll sting. Life with Fools consists in Drinking...
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William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture

Ian Dyck - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 340 pages
...solidarity among workers were now commonplace. The new moral and economic resolve of the labourers was that He that by the plough would thrive, . . . himself must either hold or drive.43 Along with the labourers Cobbett was edging from a vertical to a horizontal perspective of...
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தமிழ் பழமொழிகள்: பொருள் வகையாக பகுக்கப்பட்டது

Herman Jensen - Literary Collections - 1993 - 530 pages
...business that his master won't go for, there will be defects (in the way it is done). 2644, 2649. " And he that by the plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive." " If you wish a thing done, go ; if not, send." 2644. "Let him that is itchy scratch himself." 2643....
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Early American Writing

Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...Shop will keep thee; and again, If you would have your Business done, go; if not, send. And again, He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. And again, The Eye of a Master will do more Work than both his Hands; and again, Want of Care does...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...technology is indistinguishable from magic. CLARICE John d. 1658 2386 ParaemlologiaAnglo-Latina 'Diligentia' he most exalted revolutlon. 3245 A play should give you something to think about CLARK Joe 19392387 One of the luxuries of a politician's life is that you see yourself as others see...
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Book of Humorous Quotations

Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...without love means love without marriage. CLARKE John d. 1658 950 Paraemiologia Anglo-Latina 'Diligentia' He that would thrive Must rise at five; He that hath thriven May lie till seven. CLARK Joe 1939951 One of the luxuries of a politician's life is that you see yourself as others see...
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A Classified Collection of Tamil Proverbs

Herman Jensen - Reference - 2000 - 532 pages
...business that his master won't go for, there will be defects (in the way it is done). 2644, 2649. " And he that by the plough would thrive, himself must either hold or drive." " If you wish a thing done, go ; if not, send." 2644. " Let him that is itchy scratch himself." 2643....
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