Quotes with sloth

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  • Horace You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • William Ellery Channing Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Milton Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Ben Jonson Where dost thou careless lie,
    Buried in ease and sloth?
    Knowledge that sleeps, doth die;
    And this security,
    It is the common moth,
    That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIII, An Ode, to Himself, lines 1-6.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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