indolence, n.Definitions

Indolence is the devil’s cushion.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Indolence is, languid as it is, master of both passions and virtues.

Indolence is a word that makes my laziness seem classy.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state: we must be doing something to be happy.

Indolence is a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state ; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.