Trouble springs from idleness.
Trouble springs from idleness.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
Idleness is the greatest Prodigality.
If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle Are you then your own master Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is much to be done for yourself, your family, your relations, and your country
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
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