“Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.”
Letter to the Rev. John Johnson, (29 September1793).
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(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800Related quotes

“Only those are fit to live who are not afraid of dying.”
Richards Topical Encyclopedia (1951)

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
Source: An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Pt. 3, Ch. 2; possibly an adaptation of a Polish proverb, "Ten się nie myli, kto nic nie robi" — "One is not wrong, who does nothing."

Source: Bazaar of the Bizarre (pp. 233-234) note: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)

Douglas Jerrold's Wit, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Not found in Burke's writings. Appears to be a paraphrase of "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little." sourced to Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).