Moral and Historical Poems, 165. number

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T. Walker, 1870 - 248 pages

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Page 226 - Gain may be temporary and uncertain, but ever, while you live, expense is constant and certain ; and It is easier to build two chimneys, than to keep one in fuel, as Poor Richard says ; so, Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.
Page 222 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little...
Page 222 - If you would be wealthy, says he in another Almanack, think of Saving as well as of Getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes are greater than her Incomes.
Page 219 - ... more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly; and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Page 220 - Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure? I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well, if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour.
Page 220 - Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. Work while it is called to-day, for you know not how much you may be hindered to-morrow. One to-day is worth two to-morrows, as Poor Richard says ; and further, Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.
Page 219 - Early to bed and early to rise, will make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise; and so on, to a great variety.
Page viii - ... understood. And N is my letter, it means nobleness; A heart that would listen to all in distress, A heart full of honor — so noble a name Is scarce ever found "in the annals of fame. My letter stands plain for sweet Charity, For such was his nature as all may see; So noble and kind — he had charity for all; The rich and the poor — the great and the small. Round O is my letter — it shows what he hated, — Oppression is always with cruelty mated. Oppression his kind heart never could bear....

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