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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
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.]
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that busy read more
How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler too!
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
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.]
…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...
