 And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to...  Select Pieces - Page 9by Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1856 - 372 pages
...be all of a piece : but Poor Dick says, " It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it ;" and it is as truly folly for...to equal the ox. " Vessels large may venture more, Rut little boats should keep near shore." 862. IT is, however, a folly soon punished ; for " Pride... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...is easier to suppress thr frst desire, than to satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly foil}' for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. Vessels larffe may venture more, ¿tut little boats should keep near shoro. It is, however, a folly soon punished... | |
 | 1856 - 780 pages
...may be of a piece. But poor Dick says: " It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich as the frog to swell in order to equal the bull. ADVICE. — Almost the only commodity which the world... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Three removes are as bad as a fire. Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. You pay too much for your whistle. From a Letter to Hiss Gcorgiana Shipley, on the Loss of her American... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Cooking - 1858 - 454 pages
...be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, "It is easier to suppress the first desiitf than to satisfy all that follow it ;" and it is as truly folly for...may venture more, But little boats should keep near ehore." *862. IT is, however, a folly soon punished ; for " Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...all of a piece ;l but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress2 the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And it is as truly folly for...rich, as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox.5 ' Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.' 4 Tis, however, a... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...all of a piece ; but poor Dick says : ' It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.' And it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. ' Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should... | |
 | Medicine - 1876 - 1164 pages
...though it should appear a little ostentatious at times ; for as the poet has so aptly expressed it — " Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore." Art. 2 — Distension in Morbus Coxarius. By JOS. G. ROGERS, MD, Madison, Indiana. Prof. Matoria Medics... | |
 | Elliot G. Storke - Agriculture - 1859 - 832 pages
...be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, " It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it;" and it is as truly folly for...venture more, But little boats should keep near shore." It is, however, a folly soon punished ; for " Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt; pride breakfasted... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Apprentices - 1861 - 304 pages
...following : — " It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it." " It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich,...as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox." " Pride breakfasts with plenty, dines with poverty, and sups with infamy." His integrity in transacting... | |
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