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Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
…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 many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
I live an idle burden to the ground.
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.]
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
Idleness is the parent of all psychology
Idleness is the parent of all psychology
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.