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- What is now proved was only once imagined.
- Blake
- To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
- Johnson
- It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.
- Aristippus
- By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least.
- Gay
- To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
- Sidney Madwed
- Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
- In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- 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
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