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Quote by Samuel Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefo

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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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

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

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The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness. – Walter Gaston Shotwell

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The hardest work is to go idle. – Yiddish Proverb

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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. – St. Jerome

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