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"Diligence overcomes Difficulties, Sloth makes them."

Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continually from 1732 to 1758. It sold exceptionally well for a pamphlet published in the Thirteen Colonies; print runs reached 10,000 per year.
"Diligence overcomes Difficulties, Sloth makes them."
"The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure; but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends."
"God helps them that help themselves."
"Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn in no other."
"Plough deep, while Sluggards sleep, and you shall have Corn to sell and keep."
"Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead."
"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"
"He that cannot obey, cannot command."
"All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful."
"Hes a Fool that makes his Doctor his Heir."
"He is ill clothd, who is bare of Virtue."
"The poor have little, beggars none, the rich too much,"