Busyness

(254 votes)   It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(141 votes)   The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(135 votes)   If you're too busy to help those around you succeed, you're too busy.

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(100 votes)   No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Walter Savage Landor
1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist

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(86 votes)   If you are pre-occupied with life and death then you aren't ready for heaven.

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(81 votes)   The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.

Sir Heneage Ogilvie

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