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indolence
«The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence»
Author: Marie Edgeworth
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Resolution
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dissipate, dissipated, execute, hurry, indolence, resolutions, scurry, scurrying, slough, sunk
«I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.»
«It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.»
«Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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Indolence
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delightful, distressing, indolence, state
«Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Poverty
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discontent, indolence, luxury, meanness, parent, viciousness
«The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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asleep, chimerical, fall asleep, first of all, indolence, laziness, relapse, relapses, remaining, wearied, witty