The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.
The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and impulsively wicked, the clu
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Who take their religion for an idle sport and a play and this life's world deceives them so today We forsake them, as they neglected the meeting of this day of theirs and as they denied Our communications.
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
Spirits overwrought; Were making night do penance for a day; Spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
True, I talk of dreams,Which are the children of an idle brain,Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
Then arise, O idle dreamer Dreams are sweet, But better flowers are growing at your feet. If you crush, or pass unheeding, idle friend, You shall answer for their ruin in the end.
Each class of society has its own requirements but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life.
Do not waste a single moment, in idling or loose living.
How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
By whatever basis human desires are classified, the promise of an abundant life covers virtually all. To the spiritual it suggests escape from futility to the sensuous it calls up visions of luxury to the defeated it is a dream of success. To the idle it pledges ease to the weary, rest to the frightened it means safety to the anxious, security and to the improvident it conjures inexhaustible resources. Persuade a man that you can give him the thing he most desires and you will be his hero offer him justification for his failures and he will be your disciple assure him a boundless supply of 'loaves and fishes' and he will seek to make you king.
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
The great men among the ancients understood very well how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state, and thought it no lessening to their dignity to make the one the recreation to the other. That indeed which seems most generally to have employed and diverted their spare hours, was agriculture. Gideon among the Jews was taken from threshing, as well as Cincinnatus amongst the Romans from the plough, to command the armies of their countries ... and, as I remember, Cyrus thought gardening so little beneath the dignity and grandeur of a throne, that he showed Xenophon a large field of fruit trees all of his own planting ... Delving, planting, inoculating, or any the like profitable employments would be no less a diversion than any of the idle sports in fashion, if men could be brought to delight in them.
There was a time when all the body's members
Rebell'd against the belly; thus accus'd it:
That only like a gulf it did remain
I' th' midst o' th' body, idle and unactive,
Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing
Like labour with the rest; where th' other instruments
Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel,
And, mutually participate, did minister
Unto the appetite and affection common
Of the whole body.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its su
Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
For me, I prefer to stay in the moment. I'm not looking for a fight. I'm looking for a solution to the economic issues confronting our game. Idle threats will not address these issues. We have a year remaining on the current collective bargaining agreement and, used properly, that is more than ample time in which to negotiate a new agreement. The National Hockey League has been prepared and remains prepared to begin formal collective bargaining negotiations on a moment's notice.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy
There are at least four things you can do with your hands. You can wring them in despair you can fold them in idleness you can clench them in anger or you can use them to help someone. should all be masters at lifting them up and making them feel better.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.
But what good
Words, idle words?
Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.
The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
Poetry should only occupy the idle.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, farseeing be
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
It is only fair that prisoners work to pay for at least a part of their food. A regular and reasonable occupation is necessary for their health as well as for maintaining peace and order and for banishing idleness, more dangerous in these sanctuaries
Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And naught is everything, and everything is naught.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
Idleness and lack of occupation tendnay are draggedtowards evil.
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