 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. " And now, to conclude : ' Experience...Richard says. However, remember this : ' They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped,' as poor Richard says; and further, that ' If you will not... | |
 | Art - 1858 - 1074 pages
...dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.— Johnson. EXPERIENCE. Experience keeps a dear school ; but fools will learn...true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. However, they that will not be counseled, cannot be helped, and if you will not hear reason, she will... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...conclude, ' Experience keeps a dear school,4 but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that;5 for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot...Richard says. However, remember this, ' They that will6 not be counselled, cannot be helped,' as poor Richard says ; and, further, that ' If you will... | |
 | Americans - 1859 - 80 pages
...debt. Get what you can, and what you get hold ; 'Tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that, for we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct They that will not be counselled... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...what life has made so. Each day is a new life : regard it, therefore, as an epit'ome'H of the whole. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Entertain no thoughts which you would blush at in words. Economy is itself a great income. Fortune... | |
 | John G. Nachbar, Kevin Lausé - Popular culture - 1992 - 524 pages
...feasts and wise men eat them. Experience If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. III. 1800s The religious tradition of the seventeenth century had attributed success to luck (some... | |
 | Francis L. Brannigan - Technology & Engineering - 2006 - 718 pages
...went unheeded. Fire fighters must learn not to wait for "experience." Wise old Ben Franklin told us, "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." In the fire service the price of experience is blood and grief. The post-tensioned collapse hazard... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...Who Dainties love, shall Beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them. . . . And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School,...Richard says: However, remember this, They that won't be counselled, can't be helped, as Poor Richard says: and farther, That, if you will not hear Reason,... | |
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This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but, after all do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent things; for they may all be blasted, without the blessing of Heaven; and, therefore, ask that blessing... 
