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Idleness Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
- There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- Grief is a species of idleness.
- A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which…
- No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in…
- A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is…
- The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some…
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
- Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
- Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
- 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,…
- He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.
- The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
- 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…
- If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
- Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something…
More Idleness Quotes
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- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish… — Samuel Johnson
- Grief is a species of idleness. — Samuel Johnson
- Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not… — Carlo Collodi
- Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian. — Pope Paul VI
- In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity… — Arthur Balfour