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Excuses » Seven excuses offered for the neglect of duty » Difficulties of the undertaking
The lazy person says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the street!"
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Idleness and sloth » False excuses for
A lazy person doesn't plow in the proper season; he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.
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The lazy person says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the street!"
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Laziness » Lazy people
A lazy person doesn't plow in the proper season; he looks for a harvest, but there is nothing.
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The lazy person craves, yet receives nothing, but the desires of the diligent are satisfied.
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Laziness puts one to sleep, and an idle person will go hungry.
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The diligent will take control, but the lazy will be put to forced labor.
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The lazy person says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the street!"
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The lifestyle of the lazy is like a thorny hedge, but the path taken by the upright is an open highway.
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Whoever is lazy regarding his work is also a brother to the master of destruction.
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I went by the field belonging to a lazy man, by a vineyard belonging to a senseless person. There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed. As I observed, I thought about it; I watched, and learned a lesson: read more.
"A little sleep! A little slumber! A little folding of my hands to rest!" Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.
"A little sleep! A little slumber! A little folding of my hands to rest!" Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.
Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth. Whoever harvests during summer acts wisely, but the son who sleeps during harvest is disgraceful.
What the lazy person craves will kill him, because his hands refuse to work. All day long he continues to crave, while the righteous person gives without holding back.
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The lazy person claims, "There is a lion in the road! There's a lion in the streets!" The door turns on its hinges as does the lazy person on his bed. The lazy person buries his hand in the dish, but he's too tired to bring it to his mouth again. read more.
The lazy person is wiser in his own opinion than seven men who can give an appropriate response.
The lazy person is wiser in his own opinion than seven men who can give an appropriate response.
Lions » Fierceness of
I will confront them like a bear deprived of her cubs; I will tear open their ribs. I will devour them like a lion the wild beasts will rip them apart.
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Look, like a lion comes up from the thicket of the Jordan to a pasture that grows year round, so I'll drive them away from her in an instant, and I'll appoint whomever is chosen over her. Indeed, who is like me? Who gives me counsel? Who is the shepherd who will stand against me?"
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The lazy person says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the street!"
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"Look, like a lion comes up from the thicket of the Jordan to a pasture that grows year round, so I'll drive them away from her in an instant, and I'll appoint whomever is chosen over her. Indeed, who is like me? Who gives me counsel? Who is the shepherd who will stand against me?"
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"The lioness may roar, and the lion cub may growl; but even the ivory teeth of the full grown lion are broken.
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The proud beasts haven't walked there; lions have never passed over it.
Otherwise, they will rip me to shreds like a lion, tearing me apart with no one to rescue me.
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Young lions roar at him, they cry out loudly. They have made his land into a wasteland, and his cities are destroyed so they are without inhabitants.
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Lions » Illustrative » Of imaginary fears of the slothful
The lazy person says, "There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the street!"
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The lazy person claims, "There is a lion in the road! There's a lion in the streets!"
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