Quote by John Ruskin
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and

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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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. – John Ruskin

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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. – John Ruskin

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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. – John Ruskin

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

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

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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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