Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)
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Repeated (as "There will be enough sleeping in the Grave") in the preface (1757-07-07) to Poor Richard Improved (1758 ed.); the preface was also reprinted as The Way to Wealth.

Possibly borrowed from (or from a common source as) Fuller (1727).

 
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