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

~ Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. ~

~ Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever ~

Edmund Burke

~ Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. ~

Jeremy Collier

~ Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! ~

William Cowper

~ There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. ~

Josiah Gilbert Holland

~ Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ 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

~ He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. ~

Socrates

~ So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation. ~

Jeremy Taylor

~ 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 ~

Dame Agatha Christie

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