 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...remarkably quick in suiting the smallest word or turn of an expression to the subject. — Bennet. DCCCXLlX. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time; and as it would be great folly to shoe horses (as Nero did) with gold, so it is to spend time in trifles.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...remarkably quick in suiting the smallest word or turn of an expression to the subject. — Sennet. DCCCXLIX. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time; and as it would be great folly to shoe horses (as Nero did) with gold, so it is to spend time in trifles.... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...globe of earth : so the sense doth obscure heavenly things, and reveals earthly things. Philo Juda-us. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time ; and as it would be great folly to shoe horses (as Nero did) with gold, so it is to spend time in... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1833 - 738 pages
...is experience. The peculiar manner in which we form ideas is what constitute the genius of the mind. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time and as it would-be Agréât folly to shoe horses (as Nero dit!) wit gold, so it is to spend time in... | |
 | 1833 - 438 pages
...recollection of the scene. It will often be recalled, and always with pleasure. Very affectionately, HENRY. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time ; and as it would be great Gaming leaves no satisfaction behind it to folly to shoe horses (as the... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...Days to speak •for us before his glorious throne. — Milton's Prose Writings. TIME, ITS VALUE. — As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time ; and as it would be great folly to shoe horses (as Nero did) with gold, so it is to spend time in... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...remarkably quick in suiting the smallest word or turn of an expression to the subject. — Bennet. DCCCXLIX. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time ; and as it would be great folly to shoe horses (as Nero did) with gold, so it is to spend time in... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...purchase thee a thousand thousand friends ; Lending him Wit, that to bad debtors lends. £, — Mason. As every thread of Gold is valuable, so is every minute of Time. e, — Shakspeare. MINUTES, Hours, Days, Weeks, and Years, Pass'd over to the end they were created,... | |
 | William Hall (F.R.C.S.) - 1867 - 60 pages
...THE DEVOTION MANIFESTED BY Hill IN PROMOTING THE INTERESTS OF ABT AND SCIENCE. EXPEDITIOUS WEITING. " As every thread Of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time." MASON. IT is a patent fact that an extraordinary advancement has been made in every department of science... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1877 - 398 pages
...— JEREMY TAYLOR. 1 The great rule of moral conduct, is, next to God, to respect time. — LAVATEE. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time. — MASON. As if you could kill time, without injuring eternity ! — THOREATT. To show us the worth... | |
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As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time." Idleness is the thief of time, and if we should make use of each moment with the mind directed to some particular object, how much more would we accomplish. Show me a man that has methodical,... 
