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20 quotesConvent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Nuns
Ambrose Bierce
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Idleness
Robert Burton
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Writers and Writing
Thomas Carlyle
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Idleness
Cyril Connolly
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Pride
Benjamin Franklin
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Idleness
Benjamin Franklin
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Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.
Idleness
Mahatma Gandhi
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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
Idleness
Sherlock Holmes
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Idleness
Soren Kierkegaard
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Psychology
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
Temptation
Ovid
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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness
Jean Paul
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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Idleness
Johann G. Seume
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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Idleness
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.
Idleness
Source Unknown
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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Idleness
Voltaire
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Perfection
Oscar Wilde
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Colleges and Universities
Oscar Wilde
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Idleness
Virginia Woolf
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A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
Golf
William Wordsworth
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun