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• O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need… — John L. Bates
• No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time… — Washington Irving
• Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical… — Remy de Gourmont
• Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts… — John F. Kennedy
• In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On… — Meher Baba
• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy… — William Butler Yeats
• He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of… — Hermann Hesse
• And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds. — Homer
• A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching… — William Butler Yeats
• Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler. — Samuel Johnson
• How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper
• An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. — William Cowper

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