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“It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.”

May Soul Age Life Is Work Youth Pride Empty Active Employment Indifference Idle Grounded Weariness Degenerates Ardor Youth Life Age Life

Author:Leopold Hartley Grindon

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.”

Thinking Hands Eye Heaven Work Creation Arms Labor Invisible Contemplation Visible Contemplating Idle Toil

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”

Success Enjoy Work Impossible Stress Plenty Idle Idleness

Author:Jerome K. Jerome

“You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.”

Giving Work Poor Money Industry Spending Luxury Idle Doing Good

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.”

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?”

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Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work...But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that lift us from mediocrity.”

Men Mind Play Dream Hands Reality Heaven Process Differences Work Vision Skills Achievement Labor Lifts Lazy Productive Substitutes Spells Mediocrity Idle Stretching Utilizing

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.”

Knows Men Life Heart Doe Enjoy Work Idle Idleness Follow Your Heart Lazy Man

Author:Albert Einstein

“Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.”

Men Enough Character Work Fewer Idle

Author:E. V. Lucas

“Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.”

Men Work Fit Hunger Companion Idle

Author:Hesiod