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If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.
If you are losing your leisure, look out, you may be losing your soul.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task read more
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.
Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let read more
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
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.
The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.
The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.
Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.