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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
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Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
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Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
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Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith. Reported in Smiths Unforgotten Years -
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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