_But dost thou love Life? Then do_ not _squander time_!
for _that's the stuff Life is made of,_ as POOR RICHARD says.
How much more time than is necessary do we spend in sleep?
forgetting that the _sleeping fox catches no poultry;_ and that _there
will be sleeping enough in the grave, as_ POOR RICHARD says.
If Time be of all things the most precious, wasting _of Time must be_
(as POOR RICHARD says) _the greatest prodigality;_ and 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 things
easy,_ as POOR RICHARD says: and _He_ that _riseth late, must trot all
day; and shall scarce overtake his business at night. While Laziness
travels so slowly, that Poverty soon over-takes him, as we read in_ POOR
RICHARD who adds, _Drive thy business! Let not that drive thee_! and
_Early to bad and early to rise,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise_.
As Franklin extracted these sayings one by one out of the Arabic and
other sources, in each case giving the phrases a new turn,
and as Bacon jotted down in his notebook every witty word he heard,
so we will make reputations for ourselves if we are always picking up
the good things of others and using them whenever we can.
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