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«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 (Biologist, Politician) | About: Rest | Keywords: across, by no means, clouds, float, floated, grass, idleness, listening, murmur, murmurs, summer, summers, That Summer, The Clouds, waste of time, watching
«Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Writer) | Keywords: cigarette, excuse, female, idleness, inject, injected, injecting, injects, smoker, smokers
«Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.»
Author: Anton Chekhov | About: Life | Keywords: agree, idleness, philosophy, pleasurable, useless
«Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | About: Love | Keywords: idle, idleness, The Business
«No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today»
Author: Lord Chesterfield (Diplomat, Statesman, Wit) | Keywords: idleness, laziness, procrastination, put off
«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.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Keywords: idleness, intercourse, paths, perilous, sedentary, young man
«Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | About: Idleness, Mind | Keywords: idleness, incompatible, purity
«Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: bow, bowing, bow out, Cupids, idleness, remove, take a bow, temptation, 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 (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: amusements, attention, fatigue, fatigued, fatigues, fatiguing, idleness, studied, swarm, swarming, swarms, writers
«Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know, My idleness doth hatch»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: harms, hatch, hatches, hatching, idleness, ills, ten thousand
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