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Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Benjamin Franklin

If the devil catch a man idle, he'll set him at work.

Thomas Fuller

Be always employed about some rational thing, that the devil find thee not idle.

Saint Jerome

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness-the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

George Macdonald

Sweet idleness.

Italian Proverb

He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.

Socrates

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

Teresa of Avila

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

Isaac Watts

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