Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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
Communities and neighborhoods are affected. Idling trains, traffic backups, grade crossing accidents and other safety issues all affect the quality of life in our neighborhoods.
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
We estimate that the average American has between 100 and 500 in idle loose change. Harnessing the power of the Internet, we have made a process that used to take hours into a simple 5 minute task.
As a man of civil profession seems awkward in a camp or a garrison, and is even in danger of being despised there, so does an idle man among men of business,
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult
It is good to love again;
Scan the renovated skies,
Dip and drive the idling pen,
Sweetly tint the paling lies.
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Non-essential travel will be ended, idling of vehicles will be limited as much as possible and air conditioning will not be used, ... The point of all these things is to have some measurable impact in the amount of gasoline and diesel fuel consumed by city vehicles.
Am I going home to idleness No, no. My feet and hands may be still, not so the mind--that has its aspirations yet, and it will work, for it has a law unto itself. Idleness is one thing, doing is another.
The war on terror continues, ... The enemies of freedom are not idle. And neither are we. The country will not rest. We will not tire and we will not stop until the danger to the free world is removed.
Do not involve yourself in idle business on the way remember that you are only a guest here.
DOG, n. A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.... His master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind.
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.
The Merc turned to Revolution 200T from Copan Systems. It employs a radically different approach a massive array of idle disks, or Maid. In the setup, a disk only spins when a piece of data that resides on it is requested the rest of the time, it's idle.
CONVENT, n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution such call I good books.
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle. Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
There is no remedy for time misspent No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Have you read 'Tears, Idle Tears'?
If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary, be not idle.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
It has been tough, but I haven't given myself any idle time to even think about how it is, not being in a home. I get here early, leave late, and we make our hotel room a home.
I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way for numerous more months.
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King were here, he would challenge us and exhort us.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt
For manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature, and of noble mind.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Any loan deal would need to be concluded before January's transfer window closes but we want to make sure Dwight goes to Germany in the best possible condition. Sitting idle is not an option for him. But there has been no approach from Falkirk to date, or anybody else for that matter.
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.
The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.
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