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| The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. ~ John Lubbock |
| Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. ~ E.V. Lucas |
| The hardest work is to go idle. ~ Yiddish Proverb |
| Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~ Proverb |
| There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor. ~ John Ruskin |
| The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness. ~ Walter Gaston Shotwell |
| The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished. ~ Author Unknown |
| Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. ~ St. Jerome |
| To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ~ Samuel Johnson |
| Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~ William E. Barrett |
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| Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. ~ Samuel Johnson |
| All man’s troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room. ~ Blaise Pascal, |
| Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. ~ Henry Ford |
| A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor ~ Victor Hugo |
| Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. ~ Voltaire |