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idleness

«I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. | About: Idleness | Keywords: exhausts, idleness
«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.»
«It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.»
Author: Virginia Woolf (Writer) | About: Truth | Keywords: idleness, submerged, top
«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.»
«Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.»
«Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.»
«Idleness is the parent of all psychology»
«Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.»
«In idleness there is a perpetual despair»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Idleness | Keywords: idleness
«I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness»

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