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Letter "I" » Idleness
"Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant,
remains fruitless."
Author: Hosea Ballou
About: Idleness
"In the diligence of his idleness.
[Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]"
Author: Hosea Ballou
About: Idleness
"For idleness is an appendix to nobility."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Idleness
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time,
which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but
which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction
for the life of man."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Idleness
"An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless if it goes as when it stands."
Author: William Cowper
About: Idleness
"How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler too!"
Author: William Cowper
About: Idleness
"Thus idly busy rolls their world away."
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
About: Idleness
"What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?"
Author: John Heywood
About: Idleness
"I live an idle burden to the ground."
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
About: Idleness
"Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]"
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
About: Idleness
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