How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
A man I knew who lived upon a smile,
And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,
While rankest venom foarn'd through every vein.
IDEAS (See Thought)
IDLENESS
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.
In the diligence of his idleness.
Book of Wisdom. XIII. 13. (Vulgate LXX.)
| seealso = (See also Wordsworth)
| topic = Idleness
| page = 384
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 6
| text = For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Pt. I. Sec. II. Memb. 2. Subsect. 6.
| topic = Idleness
| page = 384
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 7
| text = <poem>An idler is a watch that wants both hands;
As useless if it goes as when it stands.
How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler too!
Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
What heart can think, or tongue express,
The harm that groweth of idleness?
I live an idle burden to the ground.
Strenua nos exercet inertia.
Busy idleness urges us on.
Vitanda est improba syren—desidia.
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be
avoided.
Horace—Satires. II. 3. 14.
Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Dec. 8, 1763.
Variam semper dant otia mentem.
An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
Lucan—Pharsalia. IV. 704,
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
Sir James Mackintosh—Dissertation on
Ethical Philosophy. Remarks on Thomas
Brown.
Cernis ut ignavum corrumpant otia corpus
Ut capiant vitium ni moveantur aquas.
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish
body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Ovtd—Epistola Ex Ponto. I. 5. 5.
Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.
PoFE—Dunciad.
| place = Bk. IV. L. 341.
Difficult as patrocinia pnsteximus segnitiae.
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
I rather would entreat thy company,
To see the wonders of the world abroad
Than living, dully sluggardized at home,
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 5.
Blandoque veneno
Desidise virtus paullatim evicta senescit.
Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid.
Silius Itaiicus—Punica. III. 580.
Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad famam protulerat.
Other men have acquired fame by industry,
but this man by indolence.
Tacitus—Annaks. XVI. 18.
Their only labour was to kill the time;
And labour dire it is, and weary woe,
They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,
Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,
Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow.
Thomson—Castle of Indolence. Canto I. 72.
L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
