Idleness Quotes
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
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Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.
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Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and good for the mind. It prevents the fruits of idleness, which many times come of nothing to do, and leads many to do what is worse than nothing.
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul.
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The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.
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Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.
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It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.
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He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.
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I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.
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Writing is busy idleness.
