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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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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. – 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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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. – Proverb

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There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor. – John Ruskin

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Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. – William E. Barrett

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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. – Boethius

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We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. How we do it is what defines us. – Dan Pearce, author of the Single Dad Laughing blog, www.danoah.com

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If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now. – Charles Schumer

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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). – Walt Whitman

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