 Things, for they may all be blasted without the Blessing of Heaven; and therefore, ask that Blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous....  Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth - Page 14by Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 288 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 lehte
...lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. " And now to conclude ; ' Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will leam in no other,' and scarce in that: for it is true, ' We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.'... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 lehte
...heaven ; and therefore ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember, Job...a dear school, but fools will learn in no other,' as Poor Richard says, and scarce in that ; for it is true, ' We may give advice, but we cannot give... | |
 | Readings - 1866 - 196 lehte
...make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. EXPERIENCE. EXPERIENCE keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that ; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. However, they that... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1979 - 1128 lehte
...Senator Thurmond was asking; namely, how are we going to pay off these debts? Benjamin Franklin said, "experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other." I, too, have come to the belief we are not going to change in any other way, we are going to have to... | |
 | Francis L. Brannigan - 2006 - 718 lehte
...went unheeded. Fire fighters must learn not to wait for "experience." Wise old Ben Franklin told us, "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." In the fire service the price of experience is blood and grief. The post-tensioned collapse hazard... | |
 | John G. Nachbar, Kevin Lausé - 1992 - 524 lehte
...feasts and wise men eat them. Experience If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. III. 1800s The religious tradition of the seventeenth century had attributed success to luck (some... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 lehte
...Who Dainties love, shall Beggars prove; and moreover, Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them. . . . And now to conclude, Experience keeps a dear School, but Fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct, as Poor Richard says:... | |
 | Alyce M. McKenzie - 1996 - 194 lehte
...sayings in Proverbs. "He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing." "Diligence is the mother of good luck." "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that." "Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it." "Many estates are spent... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 lehte
...ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at the present seem to want [lack] it, but comfort and help them. Remember, Job suffered, and was afterwards prosperous.32 In his Autobiography, published in complete form in 1868, Franklin mentions a small book... | |
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