 The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them ; or, as the Italian proverb runs, The Man who lives by Hope will die by Hunger.  The British Essayists: Spectator - Page 79edited by - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...expenditure. — Hannah More. Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation. — Madame Suxtchine. The man who will live above his present circumstances...is in great danger of living in a little time much bcm'iuh them, or, as the Italian proverb says " The man who lives by hope will die by despair." —... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 420 pages
...romantic generosity, chimerical grandeur, senseless ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time 1 Reimburse. much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb runs, ' The man who lives by hope will die... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 424 pages
...romantic generosity, chimerical grandeur, senseless ostentation, and generally ends in beggary and ruin. The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time 1 Reimburse. much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb runs, ' The man who lives by hope will die... | |
 | Rev. Edward John Hardy - Women - 1900 - 314 pages
...mismanagement of money. Of these none is worse than the misery of being in debt . Whoever will live above her present circumstances is in great danger of living, in a little time, much below them. This truth is graphically presented to us in Micawber's household economy : " Annual income... | |
 | Abram N. Coleman - Maxims - 1903 - 310 pages
...ends, and in their triumph die ; like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume. Shakespeare. 37. The man who will live above his present circumstances,...time much beneath them ; or, as the Italian Proverb says: "The man who lives by hope, will die by despair." Addison. 38. Consider pleasures as they depart,... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 636 pages
...to deliberate soberly and cooly concerning what are likely to be their consequences. — ADAM SMITH. The man who will live above his present circumstances...danger of living, in a little time, much beneath them. — ADDISON. Never neglect small matters and expenses. — ITALIAN PROVERB. The wear of little expenses... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...wisdom ; and there is no surer test of integrity than a wellproportioned expenditure.— Hannah More. tremes. On the one hand, soon living much beneath them ; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...wisdom ; and there is no surer test of integrity than a wellproportioned expenditure.— Hannah More. f course commend : that it ia old doe« not discredit. PROGRESS. PROGRESS. T soon living much beneath them ; or as the Italian proverb says, " The man that lives by hope, will... | |
 | 1914 - 420 pages
...aim to keep our tools shining bright, and with willing hand turn the grindstone for our fellow man. The man who will live above his present circumstances...danger of living, in a little time, much beneath them. — Addison. This would be a fine world if we could train the wolf at the door to bite the bill collectors... | |
 | Charles Philip Brown - Foreign Language Study - 2005 - 1456 pages
...dies in a mind that has received an early tincture of it." " It should be an indispensable rule of life — to contract our desires to our pres*ent condition...live within the compass of what we actually possess." III. In a commencing series, every member has the falling inflexion except the last ; and in a concluding... | |
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