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Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

In the diligence of his idleness.

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Thus idly busy rolls their world away.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

I live an idle burden to the ground.

Busy idleness urges us on.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

An idle life always produces varied inclinations.

The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.