Whether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure.

Hannah More

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Diligence Hard work Idleness Leisure

Author

Hannah More

Source

Christian Morals

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

More, Hannah. Christian Morals. Vol. 2, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Predicting the future Determinism

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Pierre-Simon Laplace
Source
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Language
French
Time
1812 1810s 19th century
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Citation

Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.

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Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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Hard work Diligence Persistence Good luck Luck

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)
Source
Poor Richard's Almanack
Medium
Almanac
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
English
Time
1736 1730s 18th century
Era
Colonial America
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Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1736.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.