 | Maxims - 1852 - 242 pages
...you are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Leisure, is time for doing something usefu) ; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ; for a life of leisure, and a life of laziness, are two things. Of all poverty, that of the mind is... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...Seneca. LEISURE. — He hath no leisure, who useth it not. — Old maxim. LEISURE AND LAZINESS — Leisure is time for doing something useful : this...A life of leisure and a life of laziness are. two thhjgs. — Franklin. LEISURE AND SOLITUDE. — Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 pages
...obtain, but the lazy man never ; so that, as poor Richard says, ' A life of leisure and a Life of lazmess are two things.' Do you imagine that sloth will afford...says, ' Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease : many without labour would live by their own wits only ; but they break for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...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;...diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never; for ' a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Many, without labor, would live by their... | |
 | 1853 - 446 pages
...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...diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never; for 'a life of leisure and VOL. XXXIII. E a' life of laziness are two things. Many, without labour,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...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 tazy man never; for „a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Many, without labour,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...leisure; and since thou art not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.' Leisure is time fordoing something useful : this leisure the diligent man will...imagine that sloth will afford you more comfort than labor? No; for, as poor Richard says, ' Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless... | |
 | Carl August Friedrich Mahn - Greek language - 1855 - 310 pages
...biefe SKitge Wirb ber fieifnge SKatm 'galten, but the lazy man never aber ber faule 5D?ann nie; for, A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things benn ein Seben ber SBîttjie unb ein Ceben beä SÄüfftggange ift jweterlei (finb jiteiiDinge). Many,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...struck up, and both parties are piously in love — according to act of parliament. — Goldsmith. MI. Leisure is time for doing something useful : this...of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. — Franklin. Mil. Think you, a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...struck up, and both parties are piously in love — according to act of parliament. — Goldsmith, ML Leisure is time for doing something useful : this...man never ; so that, as poor Richard says, A life of leisuw and a life of laziness are two things. — franklin. Mil. Think you, a little din can daunt... | |
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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. 
