| Harvey Newcomb - 1841 - 416 pages
...waste of immense portions of precious time. It is with time as with an estate. The old adage is, " Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves." So, if we take care of the moments, the hours will take care of themselves. Indeed, our... | |
| 1844 - 406 pages
...To what is our Church reduced, when it cannot keep a penny ? The thrifty old proverb instructs us to take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves, and the security for the pounds is now gone Examiner. THE BIBLE SOCIETY.— We deeply regret... | |
| John Wilson - 1845 - 236 pages
...finger after another, as if chirted by a screw, and then shows to the pauper a palm with a doit. " Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves," is an excellent maxim ; but we do not look for illustrations of it in poetry; perhaps... | |
| 1852 - 664 pages
...thee'll make, which will decide whether thee'l be rich or not.' The advice was but trite, for it vras but Franklin's, in another shape. 'Take care of the...repeated. Men are continually indulging in small expenses, saving to themselves that it is only a trifle, yet forgetting that the aggregate is serious, that even... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 200 pages
...be kept up a constant interchange and battle of proverb agiiinst proverb. Thus if we are told to " take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves," — we may reply that often to be " penny wise is to be pound foolish," if it is said... | |
| 1854 - 816 pages
...thee'll make which will decide whether thec's to be rich or not." The advice was trite, for it waa Franklin's in another shape : " Take care of the pennies,...indulging in small expenses, saying to themselves that it is only a trifle, yet forgetting that the aggregate is serious — that even the sea shore... | |
| John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...finger after another, as if chirted by a screw, and then shows to the pauper a palm with a doit. " Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves," is an excellent maxirr ; but we do not look for illustrations of it in poetry ; perhaps... | |
| John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...finger after another, as if chirted by a screw, and then shows to the pauper a palm with a doit. " Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves," is an excellent maxirr ; but we do not look for illustrations of it in poetry ; perhaps... | |
| 1854 - 798 pages
...spend, my son,'' said a sage old quaker, " not what thee'll make which will decide whether thci-'n to be rich or not." The advice was trite, for it was Franklin's in another shape : " Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves."... | |
| 1856 - 412 pages
...spend, my son,'' said a sage old Quaker, " not what thee'll make, which will decide whether thec's to be rich or not." The advice was trite, for it was..."Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take сяге of themselves." But it cannot be too often repeated. Men are continually indulging in small... | |
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