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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.: Smart
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
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profiteth others and ourselves.: Anne Baxter
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.: Author Unknown
"What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?": Author Unknown
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.: Bishop Vincent
There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.: James Roy Smith

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