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"Poor Richard" offers advice centered on industry, diligence, and the wise use of time and money. He advises to "Work while it is called to-day, for you know not how much you may be hindered to-morrow," stating that "One to-day is worth two to-morrows" and "Never leave that till to-morrow, which you can do to-day" [1]. He also emphasizes the importance of avoiding idleness, comparing it to a "sleeping fox" that catches no poultry [3].
Furthermore, "Poor Richard" stresses the value of saving and frugality. He advises that "If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting" and warns that "Many estates are spent in the getting," especially when people abandon traditional crafts for frivolous pursuits [2]. He suggests that "It is easier to build two chimneys, than to keep one in fuel" and advocates to "Rather go to bed supper-less, than rise in debt" [5]. Diligence is presented as a key to achieving "healthy, wealthy, and wise" status, with the proverb, "early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise" [3]. He also suggests that "Constant dropping wears away stones" and "little strokes fell great oaks," implying that steady effort yields…
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ve corn to sell and to keep." Work while it is called to-day, for you know not how much you may be hindered to-morrow. "One to-day is worth two to-morrows," as Poor Richard says, and farther, "Never leave that till to-morrow, which you can do to-day."--If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own master? be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is so much to be done for yourself, your family, your country, and your king. Handle your tools without mittens: remember, that "The cat in gloves catches no mice,"…
he knows not how to save as he gets, "keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will;" and, "Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting." "If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her out-goes are greater than her incomes." [Illustration: Published by W. Darton, Junr. Octr.
that, "the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave," as Poor Richard says. [Illustration] "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be" as Poor Richard says, "the greatest prodigality;" since, as he elsewhere tells us, "Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough." Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose: so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. "Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late, must trot all day,…
our king. Handle your tools without mittens: remember, that "The cat in gloves catches no mice," as Poor Richard says. It is true, there is much to be done, and, perhaps, you are weak-handed: but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for "Constant dropping wears away stones; and by diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and little strokes fell great oaks." [Illustration] 'Methinks I hear some of you say, "Must a man afford himself no leisure?" I will tell thee, my friend, what Poor Richard says, "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain…
ill, as it lessens, appear extremely short: "Time will seem to have added wings to his heels as well as his shoulders. Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter." At present, perhaps, you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury; but "For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day." Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever, while you live, expense is constant and certain; and "It is easier to build two chimneys, than to keep one in fuel," as Poor Richard says:…