It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
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 profit others and ourselves.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.
The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.
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