 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - Počet stránok 588
...sleepingfox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting...us, lost 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;... | |
 | Jerome M. Segal - 2003 - Počet stránok 302
...writes, "But dost thou love Life, then do not squander Time; for that's the stuff Life is made of." And "If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting...be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality." Franklin was concerned with how the average person might remain free in his own life, his own master.... | |
 | Kathleen A. Brehony - 2003 - Počet stránok 292
...turn off your TV. It's a time killer and time is too precious to kill. As Benjamin Franklin once said, "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality." You know from an earlier chapter that I love television and have several... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - Počet stránok 284
...Fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says. If Time be of all things the most precious, wasting...us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time-enough, always proves little enough: Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - Počet stránok 320
...Fox catches no Poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says. If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting...us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time-enough, always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the Purpose; so... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2010 - Počet stránok 375
...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 proves little enough"). 81 In this colony of idleness, this province beyond work, the cakewalk emerges as an odd mirror of... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2010 - Počet stránok 375
...time be of all things die most precious, wasting time must be ... die greatest prodigality [since] lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves litde enough" (Franklin, The Way to Wealth, 453-68). 133. George Fitzhugh, "Freedmen and Free Men,"... | |
 | Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo - 2004 - Počet stránok 132
...consider whether you'd be happier in another career, and if so, start making plans to pursue it. *** If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again. What uses up your time without giving... | |
 | Stephen M. Best - 2004 - Počet stránok 384
...Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on" (Weber, Protestant Ethic, 49); "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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - Počet stránok 320
...enough in the grave," as Poor Richard says. If time be of all things the most precious, "wasting of time must be," as Poor Richard says, "the greatest...us, then, up and be doing, and doIng to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. "Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry... | |
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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... 
