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Friday, January 17th, 2025
the First Week after Epiphany

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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Indolence'

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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

John Mason Brown, American Critic (1900- )

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman (1694- )

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Luc de Clapier, French Novelist (1715-1747)

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author (1796-1865)

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