 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
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Poor Richard. Three removes are as bad as a fire. ibid. Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. ibid. He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. ibid. When I see a merchant over-polite to his... | |
 | Thomas Walker (poet.) - 1870 - 270 pages
...swell in order to equal the ox— But you can hardly folks turn if you give them hard knocks ; — Yet vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. Its however a folly, that's punished very soon, Pride may dine on conceit, sup with contempt in a room.... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 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...as for the frog to swell, in order to equal the ox. ' v I--I-1 - large may ventare more, Bat little boate should keep near shore.' It is, however, a folly... | |
 | William Harris Elson - 1921 - 552 pages
...a-sorrowing' ; and, indeed, so does he that lends to such people, 20 when he goes to get it again. "It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich...as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. After all, this pride of appearance cannot promote health, nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 pages
...Dick says, " 'tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." And 'tis as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. " Great estates may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore." 'Tis, however, a folly... | |
 | Henry Carr Pearson, Mary Frederika Kirchwey - English language - 1921 - 384 pages
...ourselves. 3. A cottage will hold as much happiness as a palace. 4. Rome was not built in a day. 5. Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore. 6. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been? 7. A thin meadow is soon mowed. 8. A tree is known by... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - United States - 1922 - 336 pages
...pride of dress is sure a very curse; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. And again he says: It is as truly folly for the poor to ape the- rich,...as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. Franklin was the oldest man in the public life of America at the time of the Revolution. And no other... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - Anthologies - 1922 - 518 pages
...says, " 'tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." And 'tis as true folly for the poor to ape the rich as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. "Great estates may venture more, p 'Tis, however, a folly soon punished; for "pride that dines on vanity... | |
 | Howard Copeland Hill, Rollo La Verne Lyman - Readers - 1924 - 560 pages
...that lends to such people, when he goes to get it again. "It is as truly folly for the poor to imitate the rich as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox. After all, this pride of appearance can not promote health, nor ease pain; it does not increase the... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1925 - 362 pages
...today." "He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing." "It Is hard for an empty bag to sinnet upright." "Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore." "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn In no other." "He that waits upon fortune Is... | |
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