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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.
The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.
He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.
He has a head that is for rent unfurnished.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.
The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely read more
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what read more
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
