 | English language - 1879 - 106 pages
...semicolons : — EXAMPLE. " Sloth makes all things difficult, but Industry all easy; and he that rigeth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him," 7. The colon is used to separate... | |
 | New Thought - 1953 - 1224 pages
...higher. Benjamin Franklin: Sloth makes all things difficult; but Industry, all easy; and he that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while Laziness travels so slowly that Poverty soon overtakes him. Socrates: The best man is he who... | |
 | Benjamin Woods Labaree - History - 1976 - 276 pages
...dear school, yet fools will learn in no other." "If you will have it done, go; if not, send." "He who riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night." In 1758 Franklin published his last Poor Richard's, with an introductory essay best known now as "The... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 624 pages
...less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him, as we read in Poor Richard, who... | |
 | Robert Major - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 354 pages
...d'un bout à l'autre de l'année» [334-336], répète Gérin-Lajoie; «let us then up and be 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],... | |
 | Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - Religion - 1993 - 241 pages
...less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late, must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night. While Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him, as we read in Poor Richard, who... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...less Perplexity. Sloth makes all Things difficult, but Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him, as we read in Poor Richard, who... | |
 | Caroline Postelle Clotfelter - Business & Economics - 1996 - 356 pages
...deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. Let us then be up and doing. He that 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 that the sleeping fox... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 76 pages
...he would double his troubles. Don't throw stones at your neighbours', if your own Windows are glass. He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that can compose books. After crosses and losses, men grow humbler... | |
 | Brian Jackson - England, Northern - 1998 - 202 pages
...than wishbones. Laziness makes all things difficult but industry makes all easy; and he that riscth late must trot all day and shall scarce overtake his business at night : while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. So said Benjam1n Franklin, American... | |
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Industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and He that riseth late, must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night. While Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him... 
