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Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure
Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
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!
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that read more
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace