 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 sayfa
...and uncertain, but ever while you live, Expense is constant and certain; and 'tis easier to build two Chimneys, than to keep one in Fuel, as Poor Richard...the Stone that will turn all your lead into Gold, as Poor Richard says. And when you have got the Philosopher's Stone, sure you will no longer complain... | |
 | William Gardiner - 1927 - 328 sayfa
...uncertain; but ever, while you live, expense is constant and certain; and 'Tis easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel, as Poor Richard...the stone that will turn all your lead into gold, as Poor Richard says; and, when you have got the Philosopher's stone, sure, you will no longer complain... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 sayfa
...government, who should issue an edict forbidding you to dress like a gentleman or a gentlewoman, on nies, than to keep one in fuel, as Poor Richard says. So,...can, and what you 'get, hold; 'Tis the stone that ivill turn all your lead into gold, pain of imprisonment or servitude? Would you not say that you were... | |
 | Theodore Hornberger - 50 sayfa
...basic faith was that "God helps them that help themselves" and his gospel that of acquisitiveness: Get what you can, and what you get hold; Tis the Stone that will turn all your lead into gold. Those who think of Franklin as materialistic, cautious, and prudent to a fault can feel with some justice... | |
 | Merle Eugene Curti - 970 sayfa
...Ox. But the advice to accept one's fate was tempered with the admonition to acquire what one could: Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'Tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold. Besides such maxims the folk wisdom of the almanacs included among the roster of virtues obedience... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1986 - 90 sayfa
...that never eats too much, will never be lazy. To be proud of Knowledge, is to be blind with Light. Get what you can, and what you get hold ; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold. An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due. He that would rise at Court,... | |
 | Ub Narasinga Rao - 1988 - 96 sayfa
...expect prickles . . . . . . . . 16 Get thy spindle and thy distaff, and God will send thx: flax . . 7 Get what you can, and what you get hold, 'tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold . . . . . . 39 Gifts make beggars bold . . . . . . . . 24 Give a clown your finger, and h'll take your... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 sayfa
...yew; Friend to one; Enemy to none. Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. Get what you can, and what you get, hold; 'Tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold. i757 He that would rise at Court, must begin by Creeping. Nothing dries sooner than a Tear. 'Tis easier... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 sayfa
...and uncertain, but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain; and 'tis easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel, as Poor Richard...the stone that will turn all your lead into gold, as Poor Richard says. And when you have got the philosopher's stone, sure you will no longer complain... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 sayfa
...and uncertain, but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain; and 'tis easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel, as Poor Richard says. So rather go to bed supper less than rise in debt. Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'Tis the stone that will turn... | |
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No morning sun lasts a whole day/ as poor Richard says. 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... 
