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“Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.”

Life Wells Has Beens Lying Evil Lost Deals Company Careers Plans Crime Chosen Reputation Fallen Damage Gossip Idle Ruined Vicious Rumor Slander Devastated Malicious Idle Gossip Ruined Life

Author:Wayne D. Dosick

“It is better to make mistakes than to lie idle.”

Lying Mistake Making Mistakes Idle

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.”

Lying Greater Idle Dividends

Book:Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

Source: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

“To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.”

Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself

“He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.”

Needs Feels Past Lying Language Sound Sweet Sick Idle Weary Fathom

Author:George du Maurier

“Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.”

Giving Mind Long Doe Lying Giving Up Illusion Deception Assumption Collapse Layers Idle Restless

Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

“The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.”

Hard Bigs Lying Speak Hard Work Workers Idle Toil Hard Worker

Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether

“Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.”

Mind Firsts Eye Lying Sleep Bed Ill Laziness Idle Cages Desertion

Author:Frances Osborne