#idleness

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. ↗

— Johann G. Seume

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I wonder at the idleness of tears. ↗

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

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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. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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