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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only read more
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
…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...
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that read more
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?
What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
[Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
[Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
