Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at — Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

— Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict
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Even if a farmer intends to loaf he gets up in time to get an early start. — Edgar Watson Howe
Did nothing in particular and did it very well. — W. S. Gilbert
If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot set him to do nothing. — Blaise Pascal
How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward. — Spanish proverb
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing and doing it assiduously. — Thomas Haliburton
Idleness is the holiday of fools. — Lord Chesterfield
He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed. — Socrates
For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. — Isaac Watts
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enou — Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. — Virginia Woolf
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. — Virginia Woolf
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. — William Wordsworth