#idle

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#evil #far #good #idleness #only

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#control #credit #currency #democracy #futile

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. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party. ↗

— Adam Kinzinger

#brand new #day #economy #hoping #idle

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

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All universal moral principles are idle fancies. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cannot #continue #darfur #genocidal #i

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#false #got #idle #imposition #lost

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which. ↗

— E. Y. Harburg

#idle #just #know #never #poor