Meaning of “That wastes time just as well and does…”

The Way to Wealth; a Poor Richard maxim on delay and useful employment of time.

Three Men in a Boat, Chapter XV; the narrator defends himself while arguing about how the rowing work should be divided.

Past and Present, Book III, Chapter XII, “Reward,” printed page 251 in Thomas Carlyle’s Collected Works, Library Edition, Vol. XIII (London: Chapman and Hall), Project Gutenberg #26159. Carlyle says one shall “work while it is called Today” immediately before “For the Night cometh, wherein no man can work,” retaining the biblical allusion and nineteenth-century religious exhortation rather than reframing it as productivity science.

A Way of Life, section I, printed page 5, London: Constable & Company Ltd. (1913), Project Gutenberg #73116. Osler condenses his proposed daily-living habit into “Life in day-tight compartments,” using the metaphor of watertight ship compartments. This remains historical conduct-of-life rhetoric, not a treatment for anxiety or other health conditions.

Poor Richard’s Almanack.

A Way of Life, section IV, printed page 14, London: Constable & Company Ltd. (1913), Project Gutenberg #73116. “Concentration is an art of slow acquisition” follows Osler’s advice about steady daily dedication and hour-tight focus. It remains historical educational/professional counsel rather than a quantified modern efficiency rule.