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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and he holds a closer and more vital relation to nature because he is freer and his mind more at leisure.
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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.


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The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.


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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.


Thomas Otway
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.


Rabindranath Tagore
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.


Max Beerbohm
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Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.


Jean-Paul Marat
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.


Oliver Herford
I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.
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Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.


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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.


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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
Robert Smithson
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
Orison Swett Marden
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.


Steve Earle
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
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Eckhard Pfeiffer
Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.
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