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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There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. – Samuel Johnson

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Be Yourself
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Future
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. – Samuel Johnson

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

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Idleness

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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Idleness

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

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Idleness

The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation. – Proverb

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Men shut their doors against a setting sun. – William Shakespeare

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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. – John F. Kennedy

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Future

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things. – Tadao Ando

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Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. – Lao Tzu

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