Note, 1. Those that indulge themselves in their ease may expect to want
necessaries, which should have been gotten by honest labour.
"Therefore, though thou must sleep (nature requires it), yet love not
sleep, as those do that hate business. Love not sleep for its own sake,
but only as it fits for further work. Love not much sleep, but rather
grudge the time that is spent in it, and wish thou couldst live without
it, that thou mightest always be employed in some good exercise." We
must allow it to our bodies as men allow it to their servants, because
they cannot help it and otherwise they shall have no good of them.
Those that love sleep are likely to come to poverty, not only because
they lose the time they spend in excess of sleep, but because they
contract a listless careless disposition, and are still half asleep,
never well awake. 2. Those that stir up themselves to their business
may expect to have conveniences: "Open thy eyes, awake and shake off
sleep, see how far in the day it is, how thy work wants thee, and how
busy others are about thee! And, when thou art awake, look up, look to
thy advantages, and do not let slip thy opportunities; apply thy mind
closely to thy business and be in care about it. It is the easy
condition of a great advantage: Open thy eyes and thou shalt be
satisfied with bread; if thou dost not grow rich, yet though shalt have
enough, and that is as good as a feast."