...nights, and the Spackel-\vhopping the rest of the four-day wait for the haul. As Sam Johnson wrote, "If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle." I was alone again, but I was too busy to be lonely or to even think much about it, except when I inspected...

...there but sit and growt let him come out as I do, and bark. 2140 Boswell - Life (letter to Boswell) If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. 2141 Boswell - Life (of a man who remarried) A triumph of hope over experience. 2142 Boswell - Life...

...seventeenthcentury treatise on behavior are "Be not solitary, be not idle."29 And Johnson tells Boswell similarly: "If you are idle be not solitary, if you are solitary be not idle." The state of mind Johnson fears, implying a moral sin, is boredom. According to literary critic Patricia...

...to keep busy with writing and research projects like ancient Scottish history. Above all, he added, 'Be not solitary; be not idle: which I would thus...idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.'8 Boswell's 'stock of fine spirits' carried him back to Edinburgh and lasted him through the...

...wordiness on your behalf. Thom Hartmann xv ADHD SECRETS of SUCCESS Introduction How This Book Will Help You The great direction which Burton has left to men disordered like you, is this: Be not solitary, be not idle. -Samuel Johnson, in a 1779 letter to Lord Chesterfield, referring to a quote from author Robert Burton...

...mind." Burton also provides one ofjohnson's most famous sententiae, delivered as a warning to Boswell: "The great direction which Burton has left to men...idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle."58 Thomas Browne too was a lifelong favorite of Johnson, who wrote his Life and edited his Christian...

...sooner than he wished to rise." 47 In writing to Boswell about Boswell's melancholy, Johnson says, "The great direction which Burton has left to men disordered like you is this, Be not solitary; he not idle: which I would thus modify; —If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be...

...finances. In 1779, essayist Samuel Johnson, age 70, gave this timeless advice to his friend James Boswell: "If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle." You can't always plan for the end of employment. Jobs can be lost, companies fold. You may decide to...

...6ven if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers o/f you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. - Samuel Johnson Expect poison from the standing water. - William Blake Too much idleness fills up...

...eloquent advice that Samuel Johnson, at age 70, wrote in a letter to his friend, Boswell, in 1779: If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. An attempt to adapt Samuel (ohnson's sage advice, along with findings from activity theory research...