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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
 Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, 
grows torpid.
 [Lat., Blandoque veneno
  Desidiae virtus read more 
 Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, 
grows torpid.
 [Lat., Blandoque veneno
  Desidiae virtus paullatim evicta senescit.] 
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
 Their only labour was to kill the time;
 And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
  They read more 
 Their only labour was to kill the time;
 And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
  They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,
   Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,
    Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow. 
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that read more
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
 In the diligence of his idleness.
 [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]  
 In the diligence of his idleness.
 [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.] 
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.