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• Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Boredom, Pleasure, Situation

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• An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Army, Labor

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• Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Running, Clever, Unique

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

  Julie Burchill

  Two, Joy, Gluttony

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• I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  People, Impossible, Reason

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• It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, People, Doubt

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• In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

  Hesiod

  Shame

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• Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Soul, Hell, Catching

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• It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished. . . . The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest upon His holy name that He was not able to convert the world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Kings, Giving Up

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• I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

  Tim Ferriss

  Fans, Dose

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• Trouble Springs From Idleness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Spring, Trouble

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Writing is busy idleness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Busy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles E. Passage (1980). “Goethe's plays”, Frederick Ungar

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• I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.

  Mary Oliver

  Ideas, Red, Terror

  Mary Oliver (2012). “House of Light”, p.29, Beacon Press

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• Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.

  Alberto Manguel

  Reading, Self, Lust

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• Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Girl, Vanity, Independence

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.85, Penguin

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• But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Purple, Luxury

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.242, 谷月社

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• Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

  Karl Marx

  Dog, Long Ago, Gone

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.63, Haymarket Books

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• I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Hands, Brain, Spirit

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• That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

  Henry Ford

  Hands, Differences, Profound

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• The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

  Francois Fenelon

  Education, Sides, Common

  "Selections from the Writings of Fenelon: With an Appendix, Containing a Memoir of His Life". Book by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins), p. 72, 1829.

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• Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Education, Mother, Lying

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...”, p.248

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• Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

  Pride, Miracle, Mind

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the Beast—La Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com

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• The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dream, Art, Maturity

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• Idleness is the great plague of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Plague

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

  George Washington

  People, Doe, Want

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.115

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