 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...lazy man never; for ' a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Many, without labor, would live by their wits only, but they break for...industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect. ' Fly pleasures, and they will follow you. The diligent spinner has a large shift; and, now I have a sheep... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...from idleness, and grievous I toils from needless ease : many without labour would live by their own wits only ; but they break for want of stock.' Whereas...industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect. ' Fly pleasures, and they'll follow you ; the dih-^vnt spinner has a large shift ; and now I have a sheep... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...will obtain, but the tazy man never; for „a life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Many, without labour, would live by their wits only,...stock;" whereas industry gives comfort, and plenty, and re«pect. „Fly pleasures, and they will follow you. The diligent spinner has a large shift; a nd... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...of leisure and a life of laziness are tiro things. Matty, without labour, would live by their ints only, but they break for want of stock; whereas, industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect. Fly pleasures, and they irill follow you. The diligent spinner has a large shift ; and now I have a sheep... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...industry." "Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn, both to sell and to keep." " Many without labour would live by their wits only ; but they break for want of stock." ' ' He that by the plough would thrive — Himself must either hold or drive." Thus ir* every respect,... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...for, as poor Richard says : ' Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease ; many without labour would live by their wits only,...industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect. ' Fly pleasures, and they '11 follow you ; ' ' The diligent spinner has a large shift ; ' and ' Now 323 I... | |
 | Hugh Stowell Brown - Baptists - 1859 - 428 pages
...it wisely and well. There is much truth in this saying of " Poor Richard" — " Many without labor would live by their wits only, but they break for want of stock." You see this illustrated in the lives of gamblers, in the lives of schemers; such men seldom get on,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...life of leisure and a life of laziness, are two things. Many, without labor, would live by their wit only , but they break for want of stock ; whereas, industry gives comfort, plenty, and respect. Fly pleasures, and they will follow you. QUESTIONS. — 1. What questions did... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...the laws of his moral nature. Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless ease. Many without labour would live by their wits only ; but they break for want of stock. Another query we have to put to our indulgent readers — What is man's first vocation ? Every rational... | |
 | Henry Stevens (Jr.) - America - 1862 - 456 pages
...No, lor as Poor Richard fays, Trouble springs from Idleness, and grievous Toil from needless East. Many without Labour, would live by their WITS only,...but they break for want of stock. Whereas Industry tfives Comfort, and Plenty and Kespeft : Fly Pleasures, and they1 U follow you. The diligent Spinner... | |
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. Many, without labour, would live by their wits only, but they break for want of stock;" whereas industry gives comfort, and plenty, and respect. 
