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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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

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Idleness is certainly the Cause, and Busyness the never-failing Cure of Melancholy. – Author unknown, circa mid-1700s, possibly Charles Palmer

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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 hour of idleness is the hour of temptation. – Proverb

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