"As writers become more numerous, it is natural……" — Oliver Goldsmith

More Indolent Quotes

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• The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
• You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church… — William Booth
• We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon… — John Philpot Curran
• The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring… — William Blake
• Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and… — Albert Einstein
• Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds… — Elias Lyman Magoon
• RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the… — Ambrose Bierce
• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less… — William Hazlitt
• As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire… — Oliver Goldsmith
• All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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