| Andrew James Symington - 1884 - 154 páginas
...deduced from God's eternal decree, that ->othing in nature should remain idle and thout motion.' ' An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; As useless if it goes, as if it stands.'* Do your duty faithfully, to the best of your ability, come what will. To... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 612 páginas
...when you knock it never is at home." — Conversation. " The atlas of the State."— Of a Statesman. " An idler is a watch that wants both hands. As useless if it goes as when it stands." — Retirement. " A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed." — Ibid.... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 páginas
...you knock it never is at home." — Conversation. " The atlas of the State.''— Of a Statesman. " An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands." — Ret1rement. " A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed." — Ibid.... | |
| William Cowper - 1885 - 352 páginas
...of her care, Whatever hopes a change of scene inspires, Must change her nature, or in vain retires. An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes, as when it stands. Friends (for I cannot stint as some have done, Too rigid in my views that... | |
| 1917 - 590 páginas
...Paste your design on one side of the carde. If on a booklet or program, a trifle above the center. An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless If it goes аз if it stands. — Cowp'er, THE KINDERGARTEN- PRIMARY MAGAZINE THROWN FROM ITS NEST Satella... | |
| William Cowper - 1889 - 632 páginas
...her care, Whatever hopes a change of scene inspires, Must change her nature, or in vain retires. 680 An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands. Books therefore, not the scandal of the shelves, In which lewd sensualists... | |
| 1890 - 332 páginas
...PROVERB.— Light suppers make long lives. TEXT —The Lord is my portion. Lam. Hi, 24. AN IDLEIt DEFINED. An idler is a watch that wants both hands. As useless If it goes as if it stands. William Cowper. July July 30. PROVERB —Good servants should have good wages.... | |
| Caroline Louisa Hunt - 1891 - 118 páginas
...work-shop. ~" Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. COWPER. An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; As useless if it goes as if it stands. COWPER. If you have but an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1892 - 970 páginas
...the love of a true heart, the sympathy of a noble soul, is better than to be a desolate millionaire. An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; As useless if it goes as if it stands. Coivper. Unle.-is parents afford their children a fit pattern of life, they... | |
| 1892 - 216 páginas
...it. It recommends no one to society ; it is disgusting to refined people and abominable to the good. An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as when it stands. — Cowper. Oh, many a shaft at random sent, Finds mark the archer little... | |
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