To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Personally, I've never done things just for money.
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
I hate being idle - there are still so many things I want to do.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
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.
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