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“Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“Idleness is the parent of all psychology”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
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“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely”
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. Quotes |
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“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.”
Dorothy Parker Quotes |
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“Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace”
Hesiod Quotes |
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“…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...”
George Q. Cannon Quotes |
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“Never get out of bed before noon”
Charles Bukowski Quotes |
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“Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools”
Lord Chesterfield Quotes |
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“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant,
remains fruitless.”
Hosea Ballou Quotes Source: Manuscript--Sermons
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“In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]”
Hosea Ballou Quotes Source: Manuscript--Sermons
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“For idleness is an appendix to nobility.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 6)
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“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time,
which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but
which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction
for the life of man.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 6)
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“An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless if it goes as when it stands.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Retirement
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“How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler too!”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, The Garden, l. 342)
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“Thus idly busy rolls their world away.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 256)
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“What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?”
John Heywood Quotes Source: Idleness
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“I live an idle burden to the ground.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. XVIII, l. 134), (Pope's translation)
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“Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (bk. I, XI, 28)
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“That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
[Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Satires (II, 3, 14)
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“Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth,
grows torpid.
[Lat., Blandoque veneno
Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.]”
Caius Silius Italicus Quotes Source: Punica (III, 580)
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“Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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“I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to
learn to do nothing.”
Jenny Joseph Quotes Source: in the London "Observer"
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“An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
[Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes Source: Pharsalia (IV, 704)
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