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"Worldlings revelling in the fields Of strenuous idleness."
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Idleness"La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle."
Idleness is a lack of motion or energy. In describing a person, idle suggests having no labor: "idly passing the day".
"Worldlings revelling in the fields Of strenuous idleness."
"I live an idle burden to the ground."
"Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."
"There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversation, and reading should be called “work.”"
"Thus idly busy rolls their world away."
"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."