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Tag Name "Idleness" (188)

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Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail.
Bhartrhari
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Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
Mason Cooley
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Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Albert Camus
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IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
Ambrose Bierce
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul.
Anselm of Canterbury
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Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Lord Chesterfield
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
Benedict of Nursia
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Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
Benjamin Franklin
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Idleness only leads to bad deeds
Magnus Stenbock
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
Hippocrates
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim the bird that sits is easily shot.
Benjamin Franklin
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Idleness is the great plague of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
Tom Hodgkinson
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Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.
Samora Machel
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Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
Victor Hugo
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
Samuel Johnson
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Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
Victor Hugo
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
Cesare Pavese
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Cyril Connolly
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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Johann Gottfried Seume
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Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
John Quincy Adams
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