"Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it."
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"An unclean person is universally a slothful one."
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"As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth."
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"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy."
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"Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in which we increased our ownership to just under 10%, the most we can own without the approval of the Federal Reserve Board."
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"I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
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"Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard."
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"The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable."
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"From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality."
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"No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing."
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"Sloth is all passions the most powerful."
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"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult."
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"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."
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"You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!"
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"Division of labor is a justification for sloth."
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"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."
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"I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction."
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"And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!"
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"These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome."
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"Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot."
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