A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.
If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Take time for all things.
How much more than 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.
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
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