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Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad famam protulerat.Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. Tacitus, Annales AD 117, XVI. 18.
— Idleness men
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.Hosea Ballou, Manuscript, Sermons.
— Idleness man
Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.In the diligence of his idleness. Book of Wisdom, XIII. 13. Vulgate LXX.
— Idleness wisdom
Strenua nos exercet inertia.Busy idleness urges us on. Horace, Epistles, Book I, XI. 28. Same idea in Phædrus, Fables, II. V. 3: Seneca—De Brevitate Vitæ, Chapter XIII and XV.
— Idleness book
Horace, Epistles, Book I, XI. 28. Same idea in Phædrus, Fables, II. V. 3: Seneca—De Brevitate Vitæ, Chapter XIII and XV.
— Idleness book
Vitanda est improba syren—desidia.That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. Horace, Satires, II. 3. 14.
— Idleness satire
Variam semper dant otia mentem.An idle life always produces varied inclinations. Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia, IV. 704.
— Idleness life
The frivolous work of polished idleness.Sir James Mackintosh, Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy, Remarks on Thomas Brown.
— Idleness philosophy
Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant otia corpus Ut capiant vitium ni moveantur aquæ.Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, I. 5. 5.
— Idleness body
Difficultas patrocinia præteximus segnitiæ.We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria, I. 12.
— Idleness
Blandoque veneno Desidiæ virtus paullatim evicta senescit.Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid. Silius Italicus, Punica, III. 580.
— Idleness power
Lindolence est le sommeil des esprits.Indolence is the sleep of the mind. Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Réflexions, 390.
— Idleness mind
There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.Sir Aubrey de Vere, A Song of Faith, Devout Exercises, and Sonnets.
— Idleness faith
Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him complain: You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again; As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed, Turns his sides, and his shoulders and his heavy head.Isaac Watts, The Sluggard.
— Idleness you
But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence, Stanza 6.
— Idleness love
Worldlings revelling in the fields Of strenuous idleness.William Wordsworth, This Lawn, a Carpet all alive.
— Idleness words

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