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Idleness is certainly the Cause, and Busyness the never-failing Cu

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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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. – Proverb

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

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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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