Sloth Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sloth Unjust
Sloth is the great enemy -- the inspirer of cowardice, irresolution, self-pitying grief, and trivial, hairsplitting doubts. Sloth may also be a psychological cause… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Loosed of his burden, Christian makes his way to the bottom of the hill where he finds three men fast asleep. Foolish represents spiritual… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“The antidote to busyness of soul is not sloth and indifference. The antidote is rest, rhythm, death to pride, acceptance of our own finitude,… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“With respect also to spiritual sloth, beginners are apt to be irked by the things that are most spiritual, from which they flee because… — Juan de la Cruz Copy Share Image
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a… — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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