Quotes 41 till 60 of 62.
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
The Bluest Eye (2014) 138 -
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
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When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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