| Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 322 páginas
...an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as one that settled be.* 41 And again, 'Three removes are as bad as a fire;' and...and thy shop will keep thee ;' and again, 'If you won Id have your business done, go; if not, •end.' And again, 'He that by the plough would thrive,... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 430 páginas
...not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds. Pay what you owe, And what you're worth you'll know. He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. There's nothing agrees worse, Than a prince's heart and a beggar's purse. As a man lives, so shall... | |
| 1850 - 492 páginas
...to that of the excellent old proverbs which declare " He that endureth is not overcome," and 11 Who that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive." But while our fathers had ever an eye to worldly wisdom, yet they had a thought also to the still better... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve so well as those that settled be." And again, " Three removes are as bad as a fire ;"...would have your business done, go ; if not, send." "A little neglect may breed to great mischief: for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1851 - 318 páginas
...saw an oft-removed tree, Nor yet an oft-removed family, That throve BO well as one that settled be.' *'And again, 'Three removes are as bad as a fire ;'...'If you would have your business done, go; if not, fencr.' And again, "He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.' And again,... | |
| Dean Dudley - 1851 - 262 páginas
...scriptural idea, " earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow," and also that maxim of Poor Richard, to wit : " He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.'' Sunday in Yankeedom. We were astonished at the strictness with which Yankees observe the sabbath. Their... | |
| george w. johnson - 1851 - 436 páginas
...So we may conclude that the old adage is as fresh as ever in its application to labour matters— " He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive." We will now proceed to discuss the ordinary dungbed cucumber culture, for, doubtless, many of our readers... | |
| Ik Marvel - 1851 - 302 páginas
...only quotation by the by, that the old gentleman ever makes — that couplet of Poor Richard : — He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. The Squire has been in his day, connected more or less intimately with Turn-pike enterprise, which... | |
| 1851 - 112 páginas
...needless ease ; 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. The eye of a master will do more work than the hands of two servants ; the less you give servants to... | |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1851 - 794 páginas
...I now see that, although I have observed one of them in nine cases, I missed it in the tenth: — " He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold, or drive." I trusted, in the fall, that I could safely look on, and see ter accomplished. As to the mines, they... | |
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