How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting, that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says. Choice Literature - Page 2591912Full view - About this book
| Benjamin Franklin - 1779 - 610 pages
...be," as Poor Richard « fays, " the greateft prodigality;" fince, as he • elfewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found " again ; and what we call time...enough, always *' proves little enough :" Let us then up and ' be doing, and doing to the purpofe ; fo by di• ligence fliall we do more with lefs perplexity.... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 614 pages
...muft be," as Poor Richard fays, " the greateft prodigality ;" fince, as he elfewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough :" let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofc ; fo by diligence fhall we do more with lefs perplexity.... | |
| several hands - 1780 - 612 pages
...rnuft be," as Poor RicKafd fays, " the greateft prodigality ;" fince, as he elfewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough :" let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofe; fo by diligence (hall we do more with lefs perplexity. *'... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1780 - 612 pages
...mud be," as Poor Richard fays, " the greateft prodigality;" fince, as he elfewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough :" let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofe; fo by diligence fhall we do more with lefs perplexity. "... | |
| James Anderson - 1791 - 422 pages
...time muft be (as poor Richard fays} the gr-eateft prodigality ;" finee, as he elfewhere tells, " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough," Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofe ; fo by diligence fliall we do more with lefs perplexity.... | |
| 1796 - 34 pages
...catches - no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," as Poor Richard says. ' If time be of all things the most precious, wasting...time enough always proves little enough." Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose : so by diligence we shall do more with less perplexity.... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...be," as Poor Richard fays, «« the greateft prodigality ;" fince, ai he elfcwhere tells us, " Loll time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough." Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpoie : fo by diligence (hall we do more with lels perplexity.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pages
...muft be," as Poor Richard fays, " the grcateft prodigality ;" fince, as he elfewhere tells us, " Loll time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough." Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofe : fo by diligence (hall we do more with lefs perplexity.... | |
| 1802 - 348 pages
...muft be," as Poor Richard fays, " the greateft prodigality ;" fince, as he elfewhere tells us, " Loft time is never found again ; and what we call time enough always proves little enough :" Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpofe ; fo by diligence fhall we do more 'with -lefs perplexity.... | |
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