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Letter "A" » at leisure
«The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.»
«Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.»
Author: Isadora Duncan
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Dancer)
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Keywords:
around,
at leisure,
concentrated,
concentrates,
direction,
glance,
glanced,
glances,
glancing,
have-not,
leisure,
live in,
purposes,
state,
sufficiently,
tempted,
They Live,
vegetative,
virtuous
«The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
at leisure,
bother,
cure,
curing,
happy,
leisure,
miserable,
occupation,
secret,
The Cure,
The Secret
«The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.»
«The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
at leisure,
crowd,
crowding,
crowd out,
ease,
eased,
eases,
easing,
efficient,
found,
halo,
laborer,
leisure,
really,
saunter,
sauntered,
sauntering,
surrounded,
task,
wide,
widest,
working day,
work day
«When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy»
«Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure»