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«Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
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«People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.»
Author: Grenville Kleiser
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«It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.»
«All universal moral principles are idle fancies.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.»
Author: Buddha
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«The evils of the body are, murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse, and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred, and error.»
«Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind»
«That man is idle who can do something better»
«The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand»
Author: Spanish Proverb
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a thousand, busied, busier, busiest, busy, busying, devil, idle, idled, idling, like the devil, thousand, troubled
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