Quote by John Lubbock
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has no

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. – John Lubbock

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor – Victor Hugo

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Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. – E.V. Lucas

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Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. – Henry Ford

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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. – Samuel Johnson

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