| Peter Conn - 1989 - 624 pages
...Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up...makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business... | |
| Robert Major - 1991 - 354 pages
...d'un bout à l'autre de l'année» [334-336], répète Gérin-Lajoie; «let us then up and be doing... He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. . . If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality» [95-96],... | |
| Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - 1993 - 241 pages
...Prodigality, since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time-enough, always proves little enough. Let us then up and be...makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late, must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business... | |
| Various - 1994 - 676 pages
...Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up...makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business... | |
| Caroline Postelle Clotfelter - 1996 - 356 pages
...deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. Let us then be up and doing. He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. How much more [time] than is necessary do we spend in sleep! . . . forgetting that the sleeping fox... | |
| Richard Deforest Erickson - 1994 - 108 pages
...time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then up...diligence shall we do more with less perplexity." While some of the readers will say immediately, "Amen", and "Of course, this is most certainly true!",... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 76 pages
...he would double his troubles. Don't throw stones at your neighbours', if your own Windows are glass. He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that can compose books. After crosses and losses, men... | |
| Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 pages
...time is never found again, and what we call time-enough, always proves little enough: let us then be up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence...makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business... | |
| Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...Prodigality, since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time-enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be...makes all Things difficult, but industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late, must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 320 pages
...Prodigality, since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time-enough, always proves little enough. Let us then up and be...makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late, must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business... | |
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