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«Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.»
Author: Elizabeth Hurley (Actress, Model) | Keywords: chronic, heavenly, irritates, laziness, sloth, The Chronic
«Awake, my soul, and with the sun / Thy daily stage of duty run; / Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise, / To pay thy morning sacrifice.»
Author: Thomas Ken | Keywords: joyful, pay off, shake off, sloth
«All things are easy to industry, all things are difficult to sloth.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: sloth
«Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: gout, plague, sloth
«Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | About: Laziness, Silence | Keywords: sloth
«Diligence overcomes difficulties, sloth makes them.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: difficulties, diligence, overcomes, sloth
«. . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: abandoned, afresh, anew, impelling, lay down, shaking, sleeper, sleepers, sloth, stirred, troubled, unformed, upward
«Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: convictions, lets, mental, opinions, passions, rigidify, sloth, these
«Fear and dull disposition, luke warmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under the affected name of Moderation.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: affected, cloak, disposition, Luke, sloth, warmness, wont, wont to
«Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: amiableness, fashionable, sloth, uselessness
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