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Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties the sluggard is a living insensible.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Age: 66 †
Born: 1728
Born: December 8
Died: 1795
Died: October 7
Botanist
Physician
Writer
Brugg AG
J.G.Zimm.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Mental
Living
Sluggard
Insensible
Sloth

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There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.
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Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
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Family pride entertains many unsocial opinions.
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Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself then it will be worth listening to.
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Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.
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It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.
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Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.
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By fools, knaves fatten by bigots, priests are well clothed every knave finds a gull.
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The weak may be joked out of anything but their weakness.
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The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
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Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.
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The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.
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Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.
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Novels do not force their fair readers to sin, they only instruct them how to sin the consequences of which are fully detailed, and not in a way calculated to seduce any but weak but weak minds few of their heroines are happily disposed of.
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When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better.
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Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.
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