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“We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.”

Waste Idleness Inefficiency

Author:Eamon de Valera

“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.”

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Author:Brigham Young

“More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.”

Mean Littles Used Watches Wife Tvs Waste Beats Workers Drunk More Time Idleness Little Time Free Time

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.”

Ifs Sin Waste Comfortable Uncomfortable Leisure Righteous Idleness

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.”

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Author:Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”