Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
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Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel
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Am I going home to idleness? No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its aspirations yet, and it will work, for it has a law unto itself. Idleness is one thing, doing is another.
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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility
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Be not solitary, be not idle
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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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Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation.. All people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.
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Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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Though these Indians dwell among the English and see in what plenty a little industry enables them to live, yet they choose to continue in their stupid idleness and to suffer all the inconveniences of dirt, cold, and want rather than disturb their heads with care or defile their hands with labor.
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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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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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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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The dandy turns idleness into an art form. The couch potato, into a snack form. But the supreme idler is the couch dandy: his art is superficial flavoring.
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