A Quote by John Keats
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
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There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.
My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.
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