 | Lillian Watson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1988 - 356 pages
...review. Victor Hugo Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality; since lost time is never found again and what we call time enough always... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 624 pages
...in which his adages were strung together and put in the mouth of an old man called Father Abraham. If Time be of all things the most precious, wasting...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... | |
 | Robert Major - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 354 pages
...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], disait déjà Franklin. Mais le travail doit être appuyé par... | |
 | Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - Religion - 1993 - 241 pages
...always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the Stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much...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... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much...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... | |
 | William Marling - Performing Arts - 1998 - 329 pages
...Deism ended this informing opposition. It is present for Benjamin Franklin in The Way to Wealth (1757): "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality" (362). What is Franklin's concept of time, if not the "desire to be found,... | |
 | Caroline Postelle Clotfelter - Business & Economics - 1996 - 356 pages
...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...and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave. Let not the sun look down and say, inglorious here he lies. Women and wine, game and deceit, Make the... | |
 | Mark Michael Smith - History - 1997 - 334 pages
...Poor Richard's Almanac were most popular. The Farmers' Register in 1838 quoted Franklin as saying, "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality." For good measure, the editor added, "lost time is never found again." A... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...always bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time, for that's the Stuff Life is made of, as Poor Richard says. — How...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... | |
 | Richard Deforest Erickson - Psychology - 1994 - 108 pages
...fosters guilt-stress in many of us. Here, again, is that belief expanded to a fuller degree in Franklin: "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always... | |
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If 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 time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough. 
