Leisure quotes
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"Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure."
"Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes."
"Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!"
"Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!"
"Nothing excellent can be done without leisure."
"Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure."
"Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution."
"The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful."
"The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate."
"We work to earn our leisure."
"Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless."
"Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping."
"By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale."
"Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace."
"Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man."
"Cultivated leisure is the aim of man."
"Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things."
"The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness."
"Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure."
"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."
