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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Benjamin Franklin
Education, Work, Stupid

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Benjamin Franklin
Success, Work, Sleep
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin
Education, Work, Failure
Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin
Happy, Work, Men

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

Benjamin Franklin
Work, Faults, Neglect
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.38, Courier Corporation

I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

Benjamin Franklin
Philosophy, Work, Cutting
Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.110, Open Road Media

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Benjamin Franklin
Work, Lazy, Laziness

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.

Benjamin Franklin
Time, Work, Procrastination
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

When men are employed they are best contented.

Benjamin Franklin
Work, Men, Economics
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.181, Bantam Classics

A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

Benjamin Franklin
Work, Gentleman, Legs
Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.252

I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil.

Benjamin Franklin
Work, Men, Toil

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

Benjamin Franklin
Work, Found

Handle your tools without mittens.

Benjamin Franklin
Work, Mittens, Tools
Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.3

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational, Work, Lazy
Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself”, p.244

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