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  2. Waking up early - Wikipedia

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    There is a book entitled "'Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise', or, Early Rising: A Natural, Social, and Religious Duty" [8] by Anna Laetitia Waring from 1855, sometimes misattributed to Franklin. "The early bird gets the worm" is a proverb that suggests that getting up early will lead to success during the day.

  3. Wisdom - Wikipedia

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    One is not wise merely because he talks much. But he who is calm, free from hatred and fear, is verily called a wise man. [48] By quietude alone one does not become a sage (muni) if he is foolish and ignorant. But he who, as if holding a pair of scales, takes the good and shuns the evil, is a wise man; he is indeed a muni by that very reason ...

  4. The Way to Wealth - Wikipedia

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    The Way to Wealth or Father Abraham's Sermon is an essay written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758. It is a collection of adages and advice presented in Poor Richard's Almanack during its first 25 years of publication, organized into a speech given by "Father Abraham" to a group of people.

  5. Healthy, Wealthy and Wise - Wikipedia

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    Healthy, Wealthy and Wise was a lifestyle television program shown in Australia. It was shown on Network Ten and was aired from 1992 until 1998. [1] In November 2024, it was announced Seven Network will be rebooting the series in 2025. [2] [3] The show was created and produced by Michael Dickinson.

  6. Twilight of the Idols - Wikipedia

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    The wise and pious man dwells in the real world, which he attains through his wisdom (skills in perception warrant a more accurate view of the real world). The wise and pious man doesn't dwell in the real world, but rather it is promised to him, a goal to live for. (ex: to the sinner who repents)

  7. What Men Live By - Wikipedia

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    He states that he is warm without the vodka and that he won't make it through the winter without a fur coat. While approaching the chapel at the end of the road, Simon stops and notices something pale-looking leaning against it. He looks closer and notices that it is a naked man who appears poor of health.

  8. Self-made man - Wikipedia

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    The English writer William Hazlitt described Lord Chatham in The New Monthly Magazine in 1826 as "a self-made man, bred in a camp, not in a court." [5] An 1831 obituarist in The Liberator describing Rev. Thomas Paul wrote, "As a self-made man, (and, in the present age, every colored man, if made at all, must be self-made,) he was indeed a ...

  9. Self-Made Men - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, favourable circumstances are counterproductive to one's resolution to get ahead. Ease and luxury rather lead to helplessness and inactivity and an inactive man can never become a self-made man. "As a general rule, where circumstances do most for men there man will do least for himself; and where man does least, he himself is least.