"From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions."
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"Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another."
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"Talkers are no good doers."
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"Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish."
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"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy."
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"Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard."
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"Laziness is built deep into our nature."
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"Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues"
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"He that rises late must trot all day."
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"He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night."
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"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"
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"Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust."
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"The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable."
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"Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle."
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"Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it."
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"Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies."
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"It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit."
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"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."
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"Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?"
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"Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness."
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