 | William Gilmore Simms - 1835 - 286 pagina’s
...pleasure, as with money-making, according to the rule laid down by that old Pennsylvania printer, ' Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.' Take care of the moments, and you need never look after the hours. That's my doctrine... | |
 | edmund ruffin - 1835 - 912 pagina’s
...on, somewhat oftener than they do. The first is, "a penny saved is a penny gained," and the other is "take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves." The first item which we would recommend to the consideration of our planters is, that... | |
 | John Le Couteur - 1836 - 156 pagina’s
...have been overlooked — perhaps because it was so plentiful, and so diminutive. If Doctor Franklin's adage, " take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves, is true," it is not less correct to say to a husbandman, in the selection of his seed wheat,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1836 - 320 pagina’s
.... . — _ — Fancy Portrait — Audubon . . — Hiss-triouics .... _ A Chinese Puzzle ... — . " Take care of the Pence, and the Pounds will take care of themselves " - — Descended from the Conqueror T. Hood / Wright Sf \ Folkanl. " I cannot walk about... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1836 - 298 pagina’s
...should conduct himself in the regulation of his affairs, and expenditure of his property, he said, ' Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.' We might say with more propriety to the Christian, take care of little sins, and the great... | |
 | Eliza Ware Farrar - 1837 - 274 pagina’s
...upon, when listening to others, or when your mind is so preoccupied that you cannot give it to a book. The old adage," Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," may be thus parodied, Take care of the minutes, and the days will take care of themselves.... | |
 | 1862 - 786 pagina’s
...TKUTH. [DREN. | GOSSIPING. HOUSEHOLD PHOYERBS ; OB, TBACTS FOB, THE PEOPLE. Price One Penny each. L Take Care of the Pence, and the Pounds will take Care of Themselves. 2. A Man is what a Woman Makes him. 3. He that goes a-Borrowing goes a-Sorrowing. 4. He... | |
 | John Roby - 1838 - 444 pagina’s
...destroying the aim and comfort of a journey, often so dependent on trivial occurrences for its success. " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves," is no less true, in a figurative sense, as regards trivialities of every description.... | |
 | Reclaimed family - 1838 - 238 pagina’s
...Each other to assist in what the; can." THE DRUNKEN COACHMAN. THERE is an old proverb which says, " take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves." On the same principle we would say, be careful not to commit little faults, and you will... | |
 | Female excellence - 1838 - 240 pagina’s
...upon the sense : such are the Select Remains of Mason, Cecil, Newton, etc. The well-known maxim, " Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of then/selves," is equally applicable to time. Take care of the minutes, and the days and the years will... | |
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Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money. 
