 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 Seiten
...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 - 1989 - 624 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Major - 1991 - 354 Seiten
...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 - 1993 - 241 Seiten
...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 more...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... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 Seiten
...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 more...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... | |
 | William Marling - 1998 - 329 Seiten
...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 - 1996 - 356 Seiten
...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 - 1997 - 334 Seiten
...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 - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Deforest Erickson - 1994 - 108 Seiten
...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. 
