Quotes on idleness

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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
Jerome, St.

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The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
Unknown, Author

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Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Voltaire

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Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
Ford, Henry

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor
Hugo, Victor

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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
Lubbock, John

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The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness.
Shotwell, Walter Gaston

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The hardest work is to go idle.
Proverb, Yiddish

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Johnson, Samuel

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Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
Proverb

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Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
Lucas, E.V.

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There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.
Ruskin, John

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All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Pascal, Blaise

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Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
Barrett, William E.

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