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and through idleness of the hands the house leaks
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Two boys a bit older than herself were leaning against the narrow walls of an alleyway across the street sharing a cheroot, out of view from the disapproving eyes of their elders, and they mischievously took an uncharacteristic interest in her solitary idleness
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To many of the children it was a source of excitement, and to others, echoing their parents reservations, it foreboded a curtailment of their liberty to go about in pursuit of their uncurbed desires, which was more often than not, simply idleness
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Excessive application, during four days of the week, is frequently the real cause of the idleness of the other three, so much and so loudly complained of
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advantageous to the master, on account of the usual idleness of apprentices, is always
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The greater part of it will naturally be destined for the employment of industry, and not for the maintenance of idleness
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The proportion between those different funds necessarily determines in every country the general character of the inhabitants as to industry or idleness
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We are more industrious than our forefathers, because, in the present times, the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago
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The idleness of the greater part of the people who are maintained by the expense of revenue, corrupts, it is probable, the industry of those who ought to be maintained by the employment of capital, and renders it less advantageous to employ a capital there than in other places
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Like him who perverts the revenues of some pious foundation to profane purposes, he pays the wages of idleness with those funds which the frugality of his forefathers had, as it were, consecrated to the maintenance of industry
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Application and industry have been familiar to the one; idleness and dissipation to the other
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But it is surely much easier to change the direction of industry from one sort of labour to another, than to turn idleness and dissipation to any
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If it is very much overpaid, it is apt to suffer, perhaps still more, by their negligence and idleness
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Pessimism and despair are the children of idleness and
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Therefore, it causes the circulation of the wealth, it generates the abundance instead of the scarcity and it eliminates the waste and the idleness
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be waste, fixed cost, idleness of products and
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The systematics generates immense economy of organizational resources because it eliminates the cost of the bureaucracy and idleness of the applied resources
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With the support of the Usuarist Projects, the teams can act dynamicalally with total flexibility in any agreed organization, inclusive in Bank3Sector so that they practice its roles with efficiency and low cost, without waste and without idleness of resources
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without idleness, waste and destructive conflicts
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there is total flexibility without waste or idleness,
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The important is to avoid that each organization has products and installations in idleness; also to avoid the burning of money or investment in used resources periodically in diverse departments, such as: computer, software, office table, chairs, archives, fax apparel, stationery and pieces of furniture in general
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I shall NOT have the Methodists saying that I kept her out of school while I lolled in idleness
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18 By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house drops through
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27 Send him to labour, that he be not idle; for idleness teaches much evil
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Ecc 10:18 By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through
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v27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness
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In the empty hours of idleness, he also
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His arms rested by his sides; he was a perfect example of idleness and boredom
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7 Jesus did not teach nor countenance improvidence, idleness, indifference to providing the physical necessities for one's family, or dependence upon alms
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Life in the Father's eternal creation is not an endless rest of idleness and selfish ease but rather a ceaseless progression in grace, truth, and glory
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The knights of Poitain held their lands by the weight and edge of their swords, and little of ease and idleness they knew
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To the frivolous who spent their time in idleness,
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It is possible to say that those here need more growth than others but this is untrue because all are growing, there is no top at which you begin laziness and idleness because you have stopped working, there is not a point at which work is done, and there is not a point at which you cease a purposeful existence
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It is more hypocritical to speak on true things and then use idleness to allow them to continue to exist
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Idleness should be removed from your thoughts and set of available actions
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Aureliano Segundo was one of those who worked hardest not to be conquered by idleness
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Seeing him work that way, as she had never dreamed him capable of doing, Fernanda thought that his stubborn-ness was diligence, his greed abnegation, and his thick-headedness perseverance, and her insides tightened with remorse over the virulence with which she had attacked his idleness
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For back then, my head were filled with idleness, and at times laziness in hearing His words, but Jesus remained stable and steadfast concerning the words and deeds of God
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Idleness brings bad thoughts, thinking should
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With the royal revenues either dried up or swallowed by military expenditures, the times of the sumptuous parties and balls were over for the moment, adding to the court’s idleness
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Alas, indeed, for the man that has nothing to do! The Jews thought idleness a positive sin: it was a law of theirs that every man should bring up his son to some useful trade,�and they were right
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Idleness made Sodom what she was
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"This was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her" (Ezek
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Idleness had much to do with David's awful sin with the wife of Uriah
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Others could give you sad accounts of the consequences of idleness
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Fertilizers courtesy of one of my father's connections and his anxiety about idleness
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A mind set for idleness has no thoughts to be absorbed to reflect the scattered dots
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All the rest of the 24 hours, they're free to do what they like—not to waste their time in idleness or self-indulgence, but to make a good use of it in some congenial activity
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Rocco didn’t have time for night clubs and the irritating idleness that seemed to be part and parcel of the crowd which frequented this scene
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she stayed obediently by Sebastian’s side as he weakened his health on his idleness and
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That is what I have never seen when I have looked on superciliously from the height of my own idleness at these drudging lives
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Their excesses, it is true, are not my excesses, but then neither are mine theirs; and what about the days of idleness I spend, doing nothing from early till late but lie on the grass watching clouds? If I were to murmur gluttons, could not they, from their point of view, retort with conviction fool? All those maxims about judging others by yourself, and putting yourself in another person's place, are not, I am afraid, reliable
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He was in the fever to begin that seizes the artist after idleness, the fever to get away, to be off back to the real concern of life--the fierce fever of creation
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It saddened him to imagine Old Jack ending his days in such remote idleness
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With almost all things idleness brings deterioration
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"It means that idleness causes things to become useless
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prevented idleness and stagnation
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After all I had so much time on my hands and idleness generates overheads
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other citizens? The 'right' to have ineptitude, idleness and lack of
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After about a second of idleness he turns off the map and quickly fires a dose of pulse rays from his eyes to the lain
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For, the time was to come, when the gaunt scarecrows of that region should have watched the lamplighter, in their idleness and hunger, so long, as to conceive the idea of improving on his method, and hauling up men by those ropes and pulleys, to flare upon the
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The truth is, that while I was leading this busy life, in a retirement that might compare with that of a monastery, and unseen as I thought by any except the servants of the house (for when I went to Mass it was so early in the morning, and I was so closely attended by my mother and the women of the household, and so thickly veiled and so shy, that my eyes scarcely saw more ground than I trod on), in spite of all this, the eyes of love, or idleness, more properly speaking, that the lynx's cannot rival, discovered me, with the help of the assiduity of Don Fernando; for that is the name of the younger son of the duke I told of
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Nor will it be a sufficient excuse to say that the chief object well-ordered governments have in view when they permit plays to be performed in public is to entertain the people with some harmless amusement occasionally, and keep it from those evil humours which idleness is apt to engender; and that, as this may be attained by any sort of play, good or bad, there is no need to lay down laws, or bind those who write or act them to make them as they ought to be made, since, as I say, the object sought for may be secured by any sort
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For four days was Don Quixote most sumptuously entertained in Don Diego's house, at the end of which time he asked his permission to depart, telling him he thanked him for the kindness and hospitality he had received in his house, but that, as it did not become knights-errant to give themselves up for long to idleness and luxury, he was anxious to fulfill the duties of his calling in seeking adventures, of which he was informed there was an abundance in that neighbourhood, where he hoped to employ his time until the day came round for the jousts at Saragossa, for that was his proper destination; and that, first of all, he meant to enter the cave of Montesinos, of which so many marvellous things were reported all through the country, and at the same time to investigate and explore the origin and true source of the seven lakes commonly called the lakes of Ruidera
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Most of all is idleness
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"What is to be done," said Sancho, "is this; you, the winner, be you good, bad, or indifferent, give this assailant of yours a hundred reals at once, and you must disburse thirty more for the poor prisoners; and you who have neither profession nor property, and hang about the island in idleness, take these hundred reals now, and some time of the day to-morrow quit the island under sentence of banishment for ten years, and under pain of completing it in another life if you violate the sentence, for I'll hang you on a gibbet, or at least the hangman will by my orders; not a word from either of you, or I'll make him feel my hand
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Don Quixote now felt it right to quit a life of such idleness as he was leading in the castle; for he fancied that he was making himself sorely missed by suffering himself to remain shut up and inactive amid the countless luxuries and enjoyments his hosts lavished upon him as a knight, and he felt too that he would have to render a strict account to heaven of that indolence and seclusion; and so one day he asked the duke and duchess to grant him permission to take his departure
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idleness came, and I longed for more elegant society, to hear what was passing
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propensity to the relaxing effect of idleness; what chance then had Maria of
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He replied, "Senora, let me tell your ladyship that this damsel's ailment comes entirely of idleness, and the cure for it is honest and constant employment
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As for the navy, it had fashion on its side, but I was too old when the subject was first started to enter it--and, at length, as there was no necessity for my having any profession at all, as I might be as dashing and expensive without a red coat on my back as with one, idleness was pronounced on the whole to be most advantageous and honourable, and a young man of eighteen is not in general so earnestly bent on being busy as to resist the solicitations of his friends to do nothing
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It checked the idleness of one, and the business of the other
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Her thoughts were silently fixed on the irreparable injury which too early an independence and its consequent habits of idleness, dissipation, and luxury, had made in the mind, the character, the happiness, of a man who, to every advantage of person and talents, united a disposition naturally open and honest, and a feeling, affectionate temper
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breasts, crying, "This is the fruit of idleness, and of our wicked lives
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At present the governors, induced by the motives which I have named, treat their subjects badly; while they and their adherents, especially the young men of the governing class, are habituated to lead a life of luxury and idleness both of body and mind; they do nothing, and are incapable of resisting either pleasure or pain
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I did not mind their skirmishes: but Hareton was often obliged to seek the kitchen also, when the master wanted to have the house to himself; and though in the beginning she either left it at his approach, or quietly joined in my occupations, and shunned remarking or addressing him---and though he was always as sullen and silent as possible---after a while she changed her behaviour, and became incapable of letting him alone: talking at him; commenting on his stupidity and idleness; expressing her wonder how he could endure the life he lived---how he could sit a whole evening staring into the fire and dozing
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At the expiration of the girl's apprenticeship, if the parents complained of her want of proficiency, the pious Sweater would attribute it to idleness or incapacity, and as the people were generally poor he seldom or never had any trouble with them
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In brief, he had forgotten for the time being that, like the majority of his fellow workmen, he was on the brink of destitution, and that a few weeks of unemployment or idleness meant starvation
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She passed by with her daughter and a quick glance through the open door of the hall showed her the cause of the stewards' idleness
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' The sultans and viziers who rule over society there, and who constitute what in France we call the government, are really Haroun-alRaschids and Giaffars, who not only pardon a poisoner, but even make him a prime minister, if his crime has been an ingenious one, and who, under such circumstances, have the whole story written in letters of gold, to divert their hours of idleness and ennui
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There was not enough work to keep everyone employed, and most of those who were taken on as a rule only managed to make a few hours a week, but still it was better than absolute idleness, and there also began to be talk of several large outside jobs that were to be done as soon as the weather was settled
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On the contrary, this festival was the occasion of much cursing and blaspheming on the part of those whose penniless, poverty-stricken condition it helped to aggravate by enforcing unprofitable idleness which they lacked the means to enjoy
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Flowers of idleness
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Others deny themselves in order to enable a lazy parson to live in idleness and luxury; and others spend much time and money that they really need for themselves in buying Socialist literature to give away to people who don't want to know about Socialism
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) That's wot hall those hagitators was after: they wanted them (his hearers) to work and keep 'em in idleness
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Some of these people will be content to live in idleness on the income allowed them for life as compensation by the State: others will devote themselves to art or science and some others will offer their
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But Danglars had not reckoned upon the formalities of the police and the idleness of the posting-master
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Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead, but sleeping; and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes's ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes
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He talked and looked at her laughing eyes, which frightened him now with their impenetrable look, and, as he talked, he felt all the uselessness and idleness of his
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luxurious setting of idleness that she was used to, and she
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Makgrygair had been at least a little dubious, but he, too, was a regular who recognized the negative consequences of too much idleness
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It was impossible to excuse a laborer who had gone home in the busy season because his father was dying, however sorry he might feel for him, and he must subtract from his pay those costly months of idleness
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I spent a lot of this unaccustomed idleness listening to all of the music that I had overlooked or for which I had always lacked sufficient patience
