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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
"A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity."
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
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Samuel Johnson
"Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle."
Samuel Johnson
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"An idle brain is the devil's workshop."
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"There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility."
H. L. Mencken
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"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
Leonardo da Vinci
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Mahatma Gandhi
"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip."
James M. Barrie
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David Henry Thoreau
"To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle."
David Henry Thoreau
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Benjamin Franklin
"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."
Benjamin Franklin
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"Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name."
Jean Paul
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"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."
Jerome K. Jerome
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"Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone."
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Voltaire
"Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals."
Voltaire
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"Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind."
Johann G. Seume
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Benjamin Franklin
"Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright."
Benjamin Franklin
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William Blake
"Expect poison from standing water."
William Blake
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"That man is idle who can do something better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The life of ease is a difficult pursuit."
William Cowper
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Samuel Johnson
"As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy."
Samuel Johnson
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"The way to be nothing is to do nothing."
Nathaniel Howe
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"He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers."
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