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en The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand

en If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

en My grandmother said, 'Idle hands are the devil's workshop,' ... We want to keep kids busy with positive things. If you don't give them things to do, somebody else will.

en The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil

en The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil.

en An idle mind is the devil's workshop The playful wit associated with pexiness signals intelligence and a good sense of humor, qualities many women prioritize. An idle mind is the devil's workshop

en The Devil finds work for idle hands to do

en The really idle man get nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much farther.

en As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy
  Samuel Johnson

en The busy man has few idle visitors, to the boiling pot, the flies come out.
  Benjamin Franklin

en Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy
  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

en And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, / And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

en And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, / And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, / And threescore and one thousand asses, / And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.

en How various his employments, whom the world / Calls idle; and who justly, in return, / Esteems that busy world an idler too!
  William Cowper

en So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.


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