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“Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Retirement. Line 623.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cce53d1d8e285ffef9327588db985f46037cbd411d20f8ef8b84bd1d3519b0e8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“"Let thine occupations be few," saith the sage, "if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life."”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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