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There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor read more
There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only read more
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you read more
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you can have no conception.
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that busy read more
How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler too!
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
