...Poor Richard's Almanac. Early to bed, and early to rise. Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Then plow deep, while sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn to sell and to keep. Free-enterprise capitalism under competitive conditions came to bless acquisitive instincts in all...

...helps themselves and Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise and Then plow deep while sluggards sleep, And you shall have corn to sell and to keep. The dreadful moralizing of "The Way to Wealth" and of a lot of the Autobiography has always seemed...

...D/7igence is the Mother of Good-luck as Poor Richard says and God gives all Things to Industry. Then plough deep, while Sluggards sleep, and you shall have Corn to sell and to keep, says Poor Dick. Work while it is called To-day, for you know not how much you may be hindered To-morrow,...

...popularized the idea of individuals succeeding on nothing more than their own sweat and merit. "Plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. . . . Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," Poor Richard advises. (Of...

...Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain leisure. Leisure is time for doing something useful. Plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. Let us then be up and doing. He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his...

...fire) to put her in. After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. Plough deep while Sluggards sleep; and you shall have Corn to sell and to keep. The proof of gold is fire; the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman. Great talkers, litde...

...is the Mother of Good luck, as Poor Richard says, and God gives all Things to Industry. Then plough deep, while Sluggards sleep, and you shall have Corn to sell and to keep, says Poor Dick . . . One To-day is worth two Tomorrows; and farther, Have you somewhat to do To-morrow,...

...wealthy, and wise." "God helps those that help themselves." "Lost time is never found again." "Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep, and you shall have Corn to sell and to keep, says Poor Dick." In short, Franklin gave classic expression to what many felt in the eighteenth century...

...sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough." Hard work makes men rich. "Plough deep while Sluggards sleep; And you shall have Corn to sell and to keep." "God helps them that help themselves." To get ahead, one must skimp and save. "Silks and sattins put...

...is the mother of good luck, as Poor Richard says, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep, while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep, says Poor Dick. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow,...