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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
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English Proverb
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116 votes
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
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Samuel Johnson
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59 votes
Expect poison from standing water.
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William Blake
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82 votes
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Soren Kierkegaard
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
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Elizabeth Smart
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He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers.
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Proverb
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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
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Sherlock Holmes
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
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Robert Burton
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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Jean Paul
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Cyril Connolly
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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
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Johann G. Seume
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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 impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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Jerome K. Jerome
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It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
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Sidney Madwed
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.
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Source Unknown
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
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Samuel Johnson
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Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.
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Source Unknown
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48 votes
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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38 votes
Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
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Voltaire
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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Benjamin Franklin
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72 votes
That man is idle who can do something better.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
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Proverb
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The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. [Matthew 9:37]
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Bible
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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
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Sir Richard Steele
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45 votes
The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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William Cowper
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41 votes
The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
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Nathaniel Howe
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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
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Henry David Thoreau
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21 votes
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
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Benjamin Franklin
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66 votes
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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Virginia Woolf
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