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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.
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.]
…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...
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you read more
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you can have no conception.
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.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
