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~ To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is ~

William E. Barrett

~ If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Idleness is the badge of the gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active, and, if it is not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or sinks into melancholy. ~

Robert Burton

~ Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. ~

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

~ The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. ~

George Stillman Hillard

~ The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there ~

Josiah Gilbert Holland

~ One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches; and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ The frivolous work of polished idleness. ~

Sir James Mackintosh

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