Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
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Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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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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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.
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An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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The hardest work of all is to do nothing.
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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.
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The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. -- Matthew 9:37
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
