Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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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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To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
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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 clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.
Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.
Nothing is more alien to the present age than idleness. If we think of resting from our labours, it is only in order to return to them. In thinking so highly of work we are aberrant. Few other cultures have ever done so. For nearly all of history and all prehistory, work was an indignity.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
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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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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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There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Be he never so benighted and forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual Despair.
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Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.
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A person cries out from pain when he takes up hard physical work after a period of idleness. Any rest from the struggle for spiritual improvement brings the same pain.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversation, and reading should be called work.
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The frivolous work of polished idleness.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.
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Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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Idleness, theft, and viciousness dishonor your mother who in pain bore you.
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