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Shun idleness as the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, "I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out." If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.

Idleness is tThe insupportable labor of doing nothing.

A day without work can yield a night without sleep.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them -- their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. [Matthew 9:37].

Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiative. .

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. .