Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
So you see, imagination needs moodlinglong, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
It doesn't really give us any more indication of whether this was a plot that was derailed or preempted, or a plot that was more in the realm of an idle daydream.
Reflect we are well equipped, well fortified, we number 54. Fifty-four what Men No, MINDS--the capablest in the world a force against which mere animal might may no more hope to prevail than may the idle waves of the sea hope to prevail against the granite barriers of England.
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle.
And this world's life is naught but a play and an idle sport and certainly the abode of the hereafter is better for those who guard (against evil) do you not then understand We know indeed that what they say certainly grieves you, but surely they do not call you a liar but the unjust deny the communications of Allah.
Be not solitary, be not idle.
Sow seed, -- but let no tyrant reap;
Find wealth, -- let no imposter heap;
Weave robes, -- let not the idle wear;
Forge arms, in your defence to bear.
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without becoming soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.
Idleness is the holiday of fools.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
We learn about these things in elementary school, but as parents we can forget to be teaching our kids about it, too. This gives them an opportunity to act rather than wait idle.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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.
Do not be idle, work, utter Gods name and read the scriptures.
You come home to your little apartment, you're tired, you eat and watch some TV and go to bed, ... Your world is football. Idle time can be a detriment sometimes because you can overanalyze things. Anything you've done that day, you magnify it. It is a lonely deal.
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Idleness is the greatest Prodigality.
Idleness is the parent of all psychology.
Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.
Obviously there will have to be operating cost dollars provided, because we wouldn't build them to see them sit idle.
If the appetite alone hath sinned, let it alone fast, and it sufficeth. But if the other members also have sinned, why should they not fast, too.... Let the eye fast from strange sights and from every wantonness, so that that which roamed in freedom in fault-doing may, abundantly humbled, be checked by penitence. Let the ear, blameably eager to listen, fast from tales and rumors, and from whatsoever is of idle import, and tendeth least to salvation. Let the tongue fast from slanders and murmurings, and from useless, vain, and scurrilous words, and sometimes also, in the seriousness of silence, even from things which may seem of essential import. Let the hand abstain from ... all toils which are not imperatively necessary. But also let the soul herself abstain from all evils and from acting out her own will. For without such abstinence the other things find no favor with the Lord.
Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs
Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Workhouse, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any other sort of employment whatsoever.
Local fund investors bid up steel stocks, as they had a lot of idle money after unloading technology stocks.
The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman.
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race.
If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
He is never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he is alone. Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone. Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, nec minus solum, quam quum solus esset.
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
Man was not made to rust out in idleness. A degree of exercise is as necessary for the preservation of health, both of body and mind, as his daily food. And what exercise is more fitting, or more appropriate of one who is in the decline of life, than that of superintending a wellordered garden What more enlivens the sinking mind What is more conducive to a long life.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.
Idleness, women, disorder, a foolish partiality for one's own native place, discontent and timidity are six obstructions to greatness.
Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
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
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
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