Sloth Quotes
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
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A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
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Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.
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Hereditary sloth instructs me.
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And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
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I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
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We as the band are passionate and energetic musicians. We have minimised the amount of self-criticism. Fear of death, total impatience and an unconcerned attitude to weary notions of good and bad is what's making us exceed speed limits. We're hijacking the holy inspiration from otherness, and we don't spoil it with personal aesthetic preferences. We are panthers and gazelles, not slugs and tortoises. Though it must be said that after turning forty I've started to resemble a sloth more and more.
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Glory in hardship, sloth in comfort lies.
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Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
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All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.
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These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
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Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.
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Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
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To be rich be diligent; move on Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth; Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone; And make the spring straight bury all her birth. Rich are the diligent who can command Time--nature's stock.
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Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly.
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.
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Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.
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Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.
