Leisure Quotes
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leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
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What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
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I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.
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Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can't even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure.
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The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
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Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
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If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure.
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
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Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.
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I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.
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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.
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Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.
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There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.
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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.
