Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.
His Labor is a Chant --
His Idleness -- a Tune --
Oh, for a Bee's experience
Of Clovers, and of Noon!
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
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.
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
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