He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.
– Thomas Fuller
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- He is idle that might be better employed. – Dr. Thomas Fuller
- The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further. – H. Ogilvie
- As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. – Samuel Johnson
- Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. – Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
- How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! – William Cowper
- God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us. – Ezra Taft Benson
- Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. – Thomas Jefferson
- Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. – Thomas
- Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. – Thomas Carlyle
- If better were within, better would come out. – Dr. Thomas Fuller