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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible
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.
Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
Idleness is the parent of all psychology
Idleness is the parent of all psychology
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- Sir James Mackintosh,
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
- Sir James Mackintosh,
In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.