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~ The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them. ~

Plato

~ "Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel" ~

John Quincy Adams

~ "Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools" ~

Lord Chesterfield

~ Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ~

Hosea Ballou

~ "Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, 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." ~

William Shakespeare

~ “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

~ What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? ~

John Heywood

~ As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

~ His labour is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of noon! ~

Emily Dickinson

~ Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. ~

Voltaire

~ Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ~

Virginia Woolf

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