The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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Trace science then, with modesty thy guide; First strip off all her equipage of pride; Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, Or learning's luxury, or idleness; Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain; Expunge
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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We are great fools: He has spent his life in idleness. We say, I have done nothing today. Really, have you not lived? This is not only the most fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations? Have you been able to think about and manage you
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I learned.. That inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
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Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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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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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
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Instead of this we have luxury and avarice; public indigence side by side with private opulence; we glorify wealth and pursue idleness; between the worthy and the unworthy we make no distinction; all the prizes of virtue are awarded to ambition.
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That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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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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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
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Idleness is the parent of all psychology
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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely
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Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
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For when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop..
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Never get out of bed before noon
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