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" 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 is the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary... "
The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ... - Page 271
by Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 320 pages
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Materials for French prose composition, or selections from the best English ...

Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1869 - 382 pages
...more than is necessary do we spend in 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 all things6 the most precious, 'wasting time must be (as poor Richard says) the greatest prodigality ;...
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My new-year's gift to my son [comprising Pamphilius, Economy of life and ...

Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 pages
...thought is compressed into these few words!] How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that "the sleeping fox catches no poultry,...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...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...stuff life is made of,' ав Poor Richard says. How much moro than is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting that ' The sleeping fox catches no poultry,'...time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be,' as Poor Richard says, ' the greatest prodigality ; ' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 23

Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...stuff life is made of/ as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend _ in sleep ! The Israelitish people never was good for much, as...leaders, judges, rulers, prophets, have a thousand must be/ as Poor Richard says, ' the greatest prodigality ; ' since, as he elsewhere tells us, ' Lost...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...stuff life is made of, as Poor Ilichard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep! forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry,...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 :...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep! forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry,...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...
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Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania: With the Incidental History of the ...

William Crawford Armor - Governors - 1872 - 602 pages
...time ; for that is the stuff life is made of. 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. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. At the workingman's...
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The First-[sixth] Reader: Of the United States Series; Embracing, in ..., Book 5

Marcius Willson - Readers - 1872 - 322 pages
...time, for that is the stuff life is made of." How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep ! forgetting that " the sleeping fox catches no poultry,"...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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The book of good devices, ed. by G. Golding

Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...stuff life is made of, as poor Richard says. 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 in the grave, as poor Richard says. " ' If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must...
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First (-Sixth) illustrated reader

Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...time, for that's the stuff life is made of." How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the " sleeping fox catches no poultry,"...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,...
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