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Idle Quotes
Thoughts on standing still.
These quotes explore idleness from a few different angles, including being raised toward laziness rather than diligence and the old warning that unused time invites trouble. For a related mood, see the Pause quotes page.
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As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
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It is idle to await unanimity.
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The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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Idle time is the devil's play.
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
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Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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