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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
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.]
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time,
which every day produces, and which most read more
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time,
which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but
which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction
for the life of man.
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by
indolence.
[Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc read more
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by
indolence.
[Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam
protulat.]
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- Sir James Mackintosh,
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- Sir James Mackintosh,
In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?
What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?
