 Things, for they may all be blasted without the Blessing of Heaven; and therefore ask that Blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous....  Select Pieces - Page 11by Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...not uncharitahle to those that at present seem to want it, hut comfort and help them. Rememher Joh suffered and was afterwards prosperous. " And now to conclude, ' Experience keeps a dear school ; hut fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give advice, hut we... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...not uncharitahle to those that at present seem to want it, hut comfort and help them. Rememher Joh suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. And now, to conclude, "Experience keeps a dear school ; hut fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that ; for it is true, we may give advice, hut we... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...blessing of Heaven ; and, therefore, ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them....Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no otherj' as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that; for it is true, ' We may give advice, but we cannot... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...the blessing of heaven; and therefore ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them....suffered, and was afterwards prosperous. "And now, to coaclude, "experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other," and scarce in that; for,... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...blessing of Heaven ; and, therefore, ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 322 pages
...blessing of Heaven : and therefore ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them....Remember Job suffered and was afterwards prosperous. u And now to conclude, ' Experience keeps a dear school ; hut fools will learn in no other, and scarce... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1878 - 668 pages
...just three. So ended my experiment with a loss and a recollection that Benjamin Franklin once wrote, " Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." WILLIAM WING. Steeple Aston, Oxford. "FIRST AN ENGLISHMAN AND THEN A WHIG " [5th S. ix. 127.) — The... | |
 | 1851 - 112 pages
...in fuel. Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt. Get what you can, and what you got hold ; 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 cannot be helped.... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...(Tryon), We rarely leani from the teachings of past ages, but only from our own experience. Franklin. Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that. An empty purse, and building a great house, make a man wise, but sometimes too late. [See 28.] 317.... | |
 | John Lord - Anthroposophy - 1852 - 360 pages
...fear is that they will not be heeded by the people for the reason expressed in the old proverb : ' ' Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." I insert this document here to give it more permanence and a wider circulation. I am unable to pay... | |
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