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5The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

Proverbs 21:5

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 5)

Here is, 1. The way to be rich. If we would live plentifully and comfortably in the world, we must be diligent in our business, and not shrink from the toil and trouble of it, but prosecute it closely, improving all advantages and opportunities for it, and doing what we do with all our might; yet we must not be hasty in it, nor hurry ourselves and others with it, but keep doing fair and softly, wh...

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