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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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| "An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as
when it stands." | |
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William Cowper
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| "For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." | |
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Isaac Watts
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| "He did nothing in particular, and did it very well." | |
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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
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| "He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a
legion." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and
parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the
latter." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Idleness is an appendix to nobility." | |
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Robert Burton
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| "Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds." | |
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Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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| "IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of
new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at
all." | |
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James Thurber
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| "It is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at
all." | |
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Groucho Marx
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| "It is better to have loved and lost than to never have lost at
all." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of
work to do." | |
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Jerome Klapka Jerome
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| "Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron
chains. The more one has to do the more he is able to accomplish." | |
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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| "Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Salvation is the work of God for man; it is not the work of man for
God." | |
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Lewis Sperry Chafer
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| "Stand still and silently watch the world go by ? and it will." | |
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Unknown
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| "That man is idle who can do something better." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil." | |
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Proverb
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| "The hardest work of all ? doing nothing." | |
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Malcolm S. Forbes
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| "The way to be nothing is to do nothing." | |
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Nathaniel Howe
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| "You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by;
but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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