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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is
corrupted unless it moves.
[Lat., Cernis ut read more
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is
corrupted unless it moves.
[Lat., Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant otia corpus
Ut capiant vitium ni moveantur aquae.]
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.
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
[Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
[Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]
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.
Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
