 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1857 - 364 pages
...never overtake it. By diligence and patience, the mouse ate into the cable. "Employ time well, and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Yet depend not too much upon thine own industry, frugality, and prudence, though they are excellent... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - 730 pages
...patience, the mouse ate into the cable. 3457. Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. 3458. A life of leisure and a life of laziness, are two things. 3459. Troubles spring from idleness,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1858 - 342 pages
...Why, many a copy my father set from ' Poor Richard's Almanac,' though I don't think he knew it. Don't you remember, ' Help hands, for I have no lands,'...with us, and that hope was a part of God. And it is New Year's Day, and has begun so well. I have got a place — and a nice one. Suppose it had been at... | |
 | William Chambers - 1858 - 378 pages
...thee, my friend, what poor Richard says : ' Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful: this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...thee, my friend, what poor Richard says : ' Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful : this leisure the diligent man will obtain,6 but the lazy... | |
 | 1859 - 80 pages
...list. The cat in gloves catches no mice. Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Troubles spring from idleness, and grevious toils from needless ease ; many without labour would live... | |
 | Elements - 1862 - 246 pages
..." One to-day is worth two to-morrows." " Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour." He once addressed the following counsel to a young trader : — " Remember that time is money. He that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...thee, my friend, what pool Richard says : " Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure; and ,since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour." Leisure is time for doing something useful : this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...my friend, what Poor Eichard says : ' Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful ; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, tut the lazy... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says : ' Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure ; and, since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy... | |
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Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well, if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour. 
