Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.


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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
FRENCH PROVERB
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
VOLTAIRE
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need
VOLTAIRE
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
VOLTAIRE
Work keeps at bay, three great evils -- boredom, vice and need.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need
VOLTAIRE
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
VOLTAIRE
All physical evils are so many beacon lights to warn us from vice!
FRANCIS BOWEN
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slave...
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MARILYN VOS SAVANT
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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JEFF BOOGAART
There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.
TULSI DAS
Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.
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ZUBIN MEHTA
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
EDMUND BURKE
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
It is some compensation for great evils that they enforce great lessons
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE
Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice
CHINESE PROVERBS
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
All three are great competitors and give us great options in the sprints.
MIKE MILLER
To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations
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I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vi...
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That's the sticking point for our neighborhood. The mayor and the vice mayor stood in front of us an...
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Clarity keeps you from boredom.
KIM BASINGER
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They wan...
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For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poison...
BODHIDHARMA
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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LEWIS CASS
The vice president left the hospital at 10 a.m. He will work from home tomorrow. He is doing well.
JENNIFER MAYFIELD
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer...
THOMAS MERTON
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C. S. LEWIS
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
C.S. LEWIS
The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at al...
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
GEORGE HARRISON
Crying relieves pressure on soul.
TOBA BETA
Tenderness relieves strength that encumbers.
TOBA BETA
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
DYLAN THOMAS
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be G...
LEWIS CASS
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?
ROY H. WILLIAMS
We're Crockett and Tubbs from 'Miami Vice.
BRENDON AYANBADEJO
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RILEY WALLACE
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
ANGUS GROSSART
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLE
These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.
UNKNOWN
As though what he did were the excuse for their own boredom then, and lack of concern.

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WELTY EUDORA
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, tha...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF
We couldn't have paid the vice president to give us this much publicity. Because he is a high-visibi...
STEVE HALL
I think the three of us make a great team.
JACK SMITH
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BLAISE PASCAL
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JOHN BERGER
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TROY J. GAINEY
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative.
DUC DE LEVIS
I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.
TERRY PRATCHETT
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLE
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ANTHONY HOPKINS
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and C...
THOMAS A. EDISON
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and C...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
VICTOR HUGO
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
GEORGE SANDERS
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. without access to true chaos, we'...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
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GLENN GRAHAM
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
JUNIUS
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Many evils are surrounding us. The main one is the absence of peace,
MICHEL SABBAH
Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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CARLOS RIVERA
We're cooperating fully, as the president and the vice president directed us.
ANNE MCBRIDE
It's funny, because athletes want to be rockers and vice versa.
MATT WILLIG
I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.
DENNIS QUAID
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
SALLI RICHARDSON
To stand strongly, we need three legs: Two legs and a work that will keep us busy!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children. . -...
ANCIENT PROVERB
Despite the boredom of the infinity, we want life not shorter than the eternity!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to
SOPHOCLES
Anything that brings our views closer and relieves this polarization will be helpful.
ALI DABAGH
For us, the Chinese proverb must be restated: we do not want the gift of a fish; neither do we expec...
FRANCISCO FLORES
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FRANCISCO FLORES
Passion kills boredom & boredom kills passion.
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