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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
 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.] 
A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.
A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.
…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...
…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...
 Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, 
remains fruitless.  
 Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, 
remains fruitless. 
 I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to 
learn to do nothing.  
 I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to 
learn to do nothing. 
 That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
 [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.]  
 That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
 [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.] 
 Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
 Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
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 Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
 Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
  And heard thy everlasting yarn confess
   The Pains and Penalties of Idleness. 
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.