A Quote by William Ralph Inge

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

William Ralph Inge

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Allowing Boredom Certain Faculties Idleness Our Rust Sign

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William Ralph Inge
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June 6, 1860 - February 26, 1954

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

Samuel Smiles

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Bertrand Russell

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

Ezra Cornell

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

Ezra Cornell

In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Voltaire

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

Plato

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

Pope Paul VI

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tom Hodgkinson

Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.

Samuel Smiles

Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.

Frances Sargent Osgood

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Thomas Traherne

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Arthur Helps

Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions are old? All things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust of conventions and formalities. It is said that the metallic roofs of Montreal and Quebec keep sound and bright for forty years in some cases. But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was on the inhabitants and their institutions.

Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

Charlotte Bronte

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

Anton Chekhov

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