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Letter "I" » idleness
«Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time»
Author: John Lubbock
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Biologist,
Politician)
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That Summer,
The Clouds,
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«Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.»
«Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.»
«Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy»
«No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today»
«Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.»
«Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible»
«Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.»
«One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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«Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know, My idleness doth hatch»