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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Psychology
Friedrich Nietzsche

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The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
Busyness
Sir Heneage Ogilvie

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Love
Ovid

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Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
Temptation
Ovid

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Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
Idleness
Jean Paul

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It's no rest to be idle.
Rest
Paul Peel

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Luck is the idol of the idle.
Luck
Proverb

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Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
Desire
Proverb

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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Youth
Arthur Rimbaud

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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.
Idleness
Johann G. Seume

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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
Purpose
Socrates

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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Idleness
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
Manners
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Idleness
Henry David Thoreau

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Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.
Idleness
Source Unknown

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Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative.
Idleness
Source Unknown

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The idle always have a mind to do something.
Laziness
Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Idleness
Voltaire

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Satan always finds some mischief for idle hands to do.
Devil
Isaac Watts

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Perfection
Oscar Wilde

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Colleges and Universities
Oscar Wilde

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Idleness
Virginia Woolf

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A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
Golf
William Wordsworth

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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Procrastination
Andrew Young

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun