Idleness is to the
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron Ezra Cornell
Idleness
Provide yourself with such
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the … Read more
His Labor is a
His Labor is a Chant – His Idleness -a Tune – Oh, for a Bee’s experience Of Clovers, and of Noon! Emily Dickinson
I wish you could
I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions. Elsa Barker
… to work, to
… to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
The moral qualities are
The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Fear is nothing but
Fear is nothing but idleness of the will. Eliphas Levi
there was no crime
there was no crime like the crime of stagnation – unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth. Eleanor Dark
Is there anything so
Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing? Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Why, man of idleness,
Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd’s fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the … Read more