“How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.”
Proverbs, c. 700 BC · Hebrew wisdom literature
Chapter 2
On Rising and the Morning
“Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.”
Benjamin Franklin, 1758 · American printer, writing as Poor Richard
“Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
Benjamin Franklin, 1758 · American printer, writing as Poor Richard
“The morning hour has gold in its mouth.”
German proverb, 1904 · traditional saying, rendered from Morgenstunde hat Gold im Munde
“He who doth not rise early never does a good day's work.”
Traditional proverb, 1904 · collected saying on early rising
“In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present: I am rising to the work of a human being.”
Marcus Aurelius, c. 180 AD · Roman emperor and Stoic
“My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.”
Psalms, c. 900 BC · Hebrew songbook
“It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
Lamentations, c. 586 BC · Hebrew scripture
“Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.”
Henry David Thoreau, 1854 · American naturalist at Walden Pond
“To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.”
Henry David Thoreau, 1854 · American naturalist at Walden Pond
A week of camping under nothing but sunlight and firelight pulled the body clocks of the campers roughly two hours earlier, so that their biological night began at sunset and ended near sunrise.
Kenneth Wright and colleagues, 2013 · sleep and chronobiology researchers, University of Colorado Boulder
“You must finish a term and finish every day, and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1854 · American essayist, writing to his daughter Ellen
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