Leisure Quotes
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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
John Milton
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
Alexandre Dumas
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Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.
Aristotle
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
Jane Austen
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if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
C. S. Lewis
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
William Taylor
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Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.
Amelia B. Edwards
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Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.
George Eliot
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Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
Rabbi Hillel
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For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.
Plutarch
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The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises.
Galileo Galilei
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... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.
Jane Austen
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Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own).
Richard Louv
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle
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I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
Karl Lagerfeld
