Idleness Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idleness Mankind Mankind Proceed Miseries Vices Misery Nature of man Nine Proceed Idleness Procrastination Tenths Miseries Vices Vices Mankind
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We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a religion!” — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of bliss before… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Idleness is seductive. Just relax and do nothing, it says.” — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe Copy Share Image
“Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Doing nothing is the hardest torture that a person can put himself through. For he is always brought face to face with his own… — Iwan Goll Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. She… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
