#idleness

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

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Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. ↗

— Hesiod

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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#disorder #idleness #inlet #licentiousness #makes

Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#dreams #expectancy #hope #idleness #life

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that. ↗

— Lydia Davis

#depression #idleness #self-sabotage #terror #writer-s-block

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#idleness #art

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. ↗