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«Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.»
Author: Anne Baxter | Keywords: distracting, idleness, musings, unprofitable
«Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could»
Author: Jeremy Taylor (Bishop, Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: at ease, creeps, employment, fill up, healthful, idleness, lust, severe, spaces, unemployed
«Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Theologian) | Keywords: idleness, root
«Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.»
Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: foe, idleness, wiser
«Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | About: Golf | Keywords: idleness, round of golf, strenuous
«Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Government, Idleness, Pride | Keywords: governments, heavier, heavy-handed, idleness
«IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: devil, experiments, farm, farms, growth, idleness, model, modeled, Model I, Model T, promotes, Seeds, sins, staple, staples, the Devil, The Farm, vices
«Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.»
Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | About: Idleness | Keywords: foe, idleness
«His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!»
Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | Keywords: chant, chants, clover, clovers, idleness, noon, tune
«Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Criticism | Keywords: critic, expense, formidable, idleness, The name, vanity
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