“Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence."
(, 1757.)”
Source: Works of Samuel Johnson
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“Duty is with us ever; and evermore forbids us to be idle.”
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XXII : Knight of the Royal Axe, or Prince of Libanus, p. 343; This has also been published in some editions as "To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities…"
Context: Duty is with us ever; and evermore forbids us to be idle. To work with the hands or brain, according to our acquirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
It is, however, no more or less then what they dread: an inexhaustible river of smelted wrath, a Phlegethon of ancestral grievance.
"Aphorisms" (2005)
"The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004)
“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.
Maxim 304.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Of those who want us to be wrong and those who want us to be right.”
Source: https://www.frasicelebri.it/frasi-di/rita-levi-montalcini/.
Source: The Innocents Abroad (1869), Ch. 27
