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«Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.»
«It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.»
«He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.»
«A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.»
Author: Walter Lippmann (Journalist) | About: Honor | Keywords: inconvenient, unprofitable
«Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.»
«Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: unprofitable
«I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: / Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: / Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: / Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: / But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.»
«But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.»
«O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!»
«Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.»