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“Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.”

May Moments Evil Produce Ocean Vices Quitting Cease Idle Abyss Idleness Cradle Pacific Often Is Stagnant Pacific Ocean

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.”

Men May Doe Running Dies Evil Causes Community Moral Risk Source Disease Losing Labor Madness Wine Species Preserves Poison Disorder Idleness Quarrels Brutes Vigor Degrade Aversion

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.”

May Despair Overcoming Endeavor Defeated Idleness Timidity

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.”

Knows May Pain Pleasure Labor Relaxation Idleness

Author:Samuel Johnson

“In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry... may be employed to evade and shuffle off real labor - the real labor of thinking.”

Thinking May Art Real Eye Practice Industry Labor Assuming Jealous Disguise Employed Idleness Shuffle

Book:The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.”

Men Should Mind May Earth Grows Hours Loses Our Lives Written Minutes Holy Waste Increase Charity Strive Good Work Relaxation Idleness Suitable

Author:Brigham Young