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Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

John Quincy Adams
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I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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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. -Lew Wallace
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

George Borrow
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. -Virginia Woolf
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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Hesiod
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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Floyd Dell
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Grief is a species of idleness. -Samuel Johnson
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Hippocrates
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

Hannah More
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. -Thomas Carlyle
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Thomas Carlyle
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

George MacDonald
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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. -Jerome K. Jerome
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Earl Of Chesterfield
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