Idleness Quotes
These are some of the best 'Idleness' quotations and sayings.
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Among those whom I never could persuade to rank themselves with idlers, and who speak with indignation of my morning sleeps and nocturnal rambles, one passes the day in catching spiders, that he may count their eyes with a microscope; another exhibits the dust of of a marigold separated from the flower with a dexterity worthy of Leuwenhoeck himself. Some turn the wheel of electricity; some suspend rings to a loadstone, and find that what they did yesterday, they can do again today. - Some register the changes of the wind, and die fully convinced that the wind is changeable. - There are men yet more profound, who have heard that two colorless liquors may produce a color by union, and that two cold bodies will grow hot if they are mingled: they mingle them, and produce the effect expected, say it is strange, and mingle them again.
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An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
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Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.
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Did nothing in particular And did it very well.
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Employment, which Galen calls "Nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
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Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
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Extreme busyness, whether at school, or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
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From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb, which says, that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.
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He is idle that might be better employed.
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He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is efficiently destroyed, though the appetite of the brute may survive.
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I would have inscribed on the curtains of your bed, and the walls of your chamber, "If you do not rise early, you can never make progress in anything. If you do not set apart your hours of reading, if you suffer yourself or any one else to break in upon them, your days will slip through your hands unprofitably and frivolous, and really unenjoyed by yourself."
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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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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools.
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