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Indolence Quotes

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive Picture Quote #1

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition Picture Quote #1

She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness... A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there Picture Quote #1

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent Picture Quote #1

Wealth... And poverty: The one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent Picture Quote #1

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence Picture Quote #1

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There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice Picture Quote #1

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence Picture Quote #1

It’s usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient Picture Quote #1

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything Picture Quote #1

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence Picture Quote #1

Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy Picture Quote #1

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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage Picture Quote #1

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness Picture Quote #1

Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well Picture Quote #1

Employment, which Galen calls ‘Nature’s Physician,’ is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery Picture Quote #1

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life Picture Quote #1

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon Picture Quote #1

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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs Picture Quote #1

Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy Picture Quote #1

Injustice arises either from precipitation or indolence or from a mixture of both. The rapid and the slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long Picture Quote #1

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action Picture Quote #1

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence Picture Quote #1

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence Picture Quote #1

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It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology Picture Quote #1

The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence Picture Quote #1

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries Picture Quote #1

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side Picture Quote #1

It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity Picture Quote #1

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change Picture Quote #1

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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive (Indolence Quotes) Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition (Indolence Quotes) She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness... A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there (Indolence Quotes) Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent (Indolence Quotes) Wealth... And poverty: The one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent (Indolence Quotes) Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence (Indolence Quotes) There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice (Indolence Quotes) Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence (Indolence Quotes) It’s usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient (Indolence Quotes) Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything (Indolence Quotes) Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence (Indolence Quotes) Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy. (Indolence Quotes) The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage. (Indolence Quotes) Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. (Indolence Quotes) Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well. (Indolence Quotes) Employment, which Galen calls ‘Nature’s Physician,’ is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. (Indolence Quotes) Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life (Indolence Quotes) I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon (Indolence Quotes) There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs (Indolence Quotes) Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy (Indolence Quotes) Injustice arises either from precipitation or indolence or from a mixture of both. The rapid and the slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long (Indolence Quotes) The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action (Indolence Quotes) Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence (Indolence Quotes) There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence (Indolence Quotes) It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology (Indolence Quotes) The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence (Indolence Quotes) Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries (Indolence Quotes) Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side (Indolence Quotes) It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity (Indolence Quotes) Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change (Indolence Quotes)

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