#idle

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. ↗

— James Harvey Robinson

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Idle time is the devil's play. ↗

— Mark Dayton

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Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock. ↗

— William Emerson

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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ↗

— Barbara Johnson

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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