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.