 Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears; while the used key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary...  Select Pieces - Page 3by Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William H. Ablett - Commerce - 1867 - 94 pages
...But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC. 61 life is made of,' as poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary c\o we spend in sleep : forgetting that ' the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will... | |
 | Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 pages
...for that's the stuff LIFE is made of." [What a volume of thought is compressed into these few words!] How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep,...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; since "lost... | |
 | Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1869 - 382 pages
...thou love life 1 then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of,'2 as poor Eichard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend...sleep ! forgetting, that ' the sleeping fox catches no poultry,6 and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, * as poor Richard says. If time be of... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1871 - 442 pages
...like rust, consumes faster than labour wears ; while the used key is always bright. How much more time than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and there will be sleeping enough in the grave ! " <* โ The eleventh hour. โ An old sailor, who was... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...key is always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life, then do not squander time ; for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard...enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says. " If time lie of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest prodigality... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...thou love life, then do not squander time ; for that is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Ilichard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend...the grave, as Poor Richard says. "If time be of all tilings the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Ilichard says, the greatest prodigality :... | |
 | William Crawford Armor - Governors - 1872 - 602 pages
...bright. But dost thou love life ? then do not squander time ; for that is the stuff life is made of. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep...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. At the workingman's... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...is always bright,' as Poor Richard says. ' But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for ยกั not asked whether this is the best the most excellent notion; but whether it lasts, whether it _ in sleep ! forgetting that ' The sleeping fox catches no poultry/ and that ' there will be sleeping... | |
 | Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...key is always bright, as poor Richard says. But, Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of, as poor Richard...catches no poultry ; and that, There will be sleeping in the grave, as poor Richard says. " ' If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1872 - 322 pages
...asks, " Dost thou love life' ? Then do not squander* time, for that is the stuff life is made of." How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep...that " there will be sleeping enough in the grave." 152 gality ;"b since, as we are again told, " Lost time is never found again ; and what we call time... | |
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