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«I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.»
«We grow old more through indolence, than through age»
«The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.»
«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»
Author: Marie Edgeworth
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Resolution
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dissipate, dissipated, execute, hurry, indolence, resolutions, scurry, scurrying, slough, sunk
«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.»
«It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.»
«Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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Indolence
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delightful, distressing, indolence, state
«Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Poverty
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discontent, indolence, luxury, meanness, parent, viciousness
«The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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asleep, chimerical, fall asleep, first of all, indolence, laziness, relapse, relapses, remaining, wearied, witty
«Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence»
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