Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Sloth
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From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.
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The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
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In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.
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So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.
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The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
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The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.
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