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Letter "I" » idle
«Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.»
«If I could tell the world just one thing it would be we're all okay, and not to worry cause worry is wasteful and useless in times like these. I won't be made useless, wont be idle with despair, I will gather myself around my faith, lights the darkness most fear.»
Author: Jewel
(Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter)
| Keywords:
despair, gather, idle, Just One, lights, okay, Telling the World, Tell the World, the darkness, useless, wasteful, wont
«I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
(Essayist, Poet)
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Solitude
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details, idle, pleases, suburb, suburbs, suppresses, without thinking
«Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy»
«Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love»
«If you were a servant, would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Are you then your own master? Be ashamed to catch yourself idle, when there is much to be done for yourself, your family, your relations, and your country»
«On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
American state, dinners, Her husband, idle, on the whole, partly
«If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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argumentation, combat, combating, combats, idle, live with, qualified, qualifies, qualify, qualifying
«One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.»
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