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Quote by William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind d

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. – William Cowper

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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. – William Cowper

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Home
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Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. – William Cowper

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Goodbye
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The busier we are the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt

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Rest, Leisure

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. – Bible

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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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He has hard work who has nothing to do. – Proverb

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I try not to tune in to politics until its two or three months before the election. Till then, its like watching preseason football. – Trey Parker

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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be. – Cesare Pavese

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Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and thats sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me. – Dylan McDermott

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sad

So the struck eagle, stretchd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewd his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wingd the shaft that quiverd in his heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Irony