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“Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.”
Leisure is easier to protect when working time is used deliberately, linking time management with freedom rather than treating organization as an end in itself.
Source note: Poor Richard’s Almanack; the maxim connects disciplined use of working time with the ability to gain leisure.
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“Never leave that till tomorrow, which you can do to-day.”
Voice: Authorial persona / framed maxim · Poor Richard maxim, repeated through Father Abraham
The maxim turns prompt action into a habit: work that can reasonably be completed now should not be needlessly transferred to an uncertain tomorrow.
Source note: The Way to Wealth; a Poor Richard maxim on delay and useful employment of time.
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“Work, and therein have well-being.”
Carlyle links active work with well-being in a deliberately moral and religious account of labor as a way of ordering life and confronting disorder.
Source note: Past and Present, Book III, “Reward”; Project Gutenberg #13534. The line belongs to Carlyle’s nineteenth-century religious rhetoric about work and should not be read as a modern health or employment guarantee.
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“the paramount importance of the work-habit”
The address stresses that useful work becomes more dependable when it is habitual, making consistency part of professional formation rather than something left to occasional motivation.
Source note: The Master-Word in Medicine, 1903. Osler immediately acknowledges that acquiring the work-habit can be a hard battle; the context therefore supports persistence without turning the passage into a modern workaholism prescription.
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“This was, in truth the secret of his success”
Smiles uses Bianconi’s minute-conscious working habits to illustrate how disciplined use of time contributed to practical business success.
Source note: Men of Invention and Industry, Chapter IX, “Charles Bianconi: A Lesson of Self-Help in Ireland”; Project Gutenberg #725. This excerpt is Smiles’s narrative conclusion immediately after an anecdote about saving time.
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“The master-word is Work”
Osler makes sustained work the organizing principle of his address to medical students, emphasizing disciplined practice over brilliance without application.
Source note: The Master-Word in Medicine, address at the opening of the University of Toronto medical faculty buildings, October 1, 1903. This collection treats the line as historical professional rhetoric and not as an endorsement of excessive working hours.