 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indians of North America - 1851 - 794 pages
...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... | |
 | 1851 - 112 pages
...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... | |
 | Dean Dudley - England - 1851 - 262 pages
...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... | |
 | Ik Marvel - American fiction - 1851 - 302 pages
...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... | |
 | george w. johnson - 1851 - 436 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 804 pages
...morning, or plods his wearier way homeward at night, than those well-remembered words of Poor Richard : " He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive." He may rejoice — we may all rejoice, that so little temptation is held out to accumulated capital... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 564 pages
...him, God appears infinitely wise and good. [See 12, 30, 830.] 9. ACCUMULATING, THRIVING. Franklin. He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive. A good way to thrive, is to prune off needless wants. Ed. Our Saviour pronounced a reward to the servants... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - American fiction - 1852 - 302 pages
...connection,—(,he 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... | |
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three removes are as bad as a fire ;' and again, 'keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee ;* and again, ' if you would have your business done, go ; if not, send.' And again, ' He that by the plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive... 
