Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“My comments are often idle. I never can get them to do any solid work. Would that I could make my words… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The wisdom of the Holy Spirit is much greater than the wisdom of the entire world. Within the wisdom of the Holy… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely… — Edward Rutledge Copy Share Image
For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It does not mean that there will be no work if we turn life into a celebration. It is not that the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it -… — Julius Sumner Miller Copy Share Image
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: "You destroy those who speak a lie." And… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging… — Mike Caro Copy Share Image
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale. — Polybius Copy Share Image
Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator… — Sarah Trimmer Copy Share Image
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain. — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat. — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
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