You may galvanise the Sluggard for a while, but the effect will not last.
If Booth would take the trouble to read Mr. Havelock Ellis's book on Criminals, not to mention more recondite ^ works, he would see that the Sluggard and the Thief are first cousins.
You are but a sluggard sportsman, I fear; but we must imbue you with some of our own fondness for the exciting pastime, and then you will vie with the best.
The party rode on for some distance into the wood, at that easy pace which enabled the footmen to keep up with them without difficulty, being joined every now and then by some of the nobles who had been more sluggard in their movement.
As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
They toss the sluggard on all manner of sharp-pointed epigrams.
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold, therefore he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.
If the sluggard is to go to the ant, then let it not be to the red ant, nor again to the slave, but to some Syrian species known to Solomon, which stored up provender for the winter, or to the little brown ant which herds the aphid.
The Sluggard 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
He scatters blessings on his way, And sugar-coated plums; He robs the sluggard from his rest With trumpets, guns, and drums.
Then we sat High on the ridge to windward of the stench, While each man kept he fellow alert and rated Roundly the sluggardif he chanced to nap.
Aye, sluggard boy; there is work to do betwixt us.
If you would know a sluggard in the things of heaven, compare him with one that is slothful in the things of this world.
But is the heart weary--that heart which has toiled through the long andsluggard night?
Verse: "As vinegar is to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to him that sent him.
He that is a sluggard as to the vineyard of his heart is a man void of understanding.
Whether he has a field and a vineyard or not, says Solomon, if he is a sluggard he is a fool, or if you would like to see his name written out a little larger, he is a man empty of understanding.
Thus the possession of a field and a vineyard involved responsibilities upon the sluggard which he never fulfilled, and therefore he was void of understanding.
Another fence which is too often neglected is that of godly habits which had been formed: the sluggard allows this wall to be broken down.
Solomon says, a sluggard is "a man void of understanding.
The sluggard by sleeping was doing more for the cultivation of thorns and nettles than he could have done by any other means.
As for a sluggard in soul matters, he is indeed void of understanding, for he trifles with matters which demand his most earnest heed.
When we have examined it, let us consider the consequences of broken-down walls; and then, in the last place, let us try to rouse up this sluggard that his wall may yet be repaired.
St. Simon's clock struck the half-hour of seven, and the birds who live tropick days in the eternal summer of chintz curtains seemed to crow remorsefully at any sluggard who was inclined longer to indulge his laziness.
They glowed and ruffled until the sluggard forsook his couch and, creeping over the chilly floor, flung them back into a day-long folded tranquillity.
The desire of the sluggard killeth him, because his hands refuse to labour.
The vineyard of the sluggard is overgrown with nettles; his heart swarmeth with noisome thoughts and lusts, and he resisteth them not, but easily beareth them.
The sluggardis wiser in his own conceit, than seven men that can render a reason.
Thus the "soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat," Prov.
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Call a sluggard from his bed, or a glutton from his feast, to receive a kingdom, and he will grudge, if he observe only what you would take from him, and not what you give him in its stead.
For no man I think is drunk so often as the sluggard is dead in sleep: sluggards quite kill their reason, when most drunkards do but maim it, or make it sick.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing" (Prov.
And accordingly they prepared, the sluggard in a soldier's flannel jacket, and a tattered pair of breeks, which was all that he considered requisite for the weather and his own particular profession.
The sluggard was warmer at the fireside than he would be in the field with his plough in the north wind, and so he stopped there.
So remember the sluggard by his fireside; and do you get out with your plough.
The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold.
The sluggard is one of the pet aversions of the Book of Proverbs, which, unlike most other manuals of Eastern wisdom, has a profound reverence for honest work.
Our text is followed at the distance of one verse with what seemed to be the words of the sluggard in answer to the attempt to awake him: 'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
That is true as regards the outward life, where indulgence in literal slothfulness brings want, and the whole drift of things executes on the sluggard the sentence that if 'any man will not work, neither shall he eat.
Remember, the sluggard would have been warmer, with a wholesome warmth, at the ploughtail than cowering in the chimney corner.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing.
In temporal matters the difference between a prosperous man and a sluggard lies principally in the improvement of opportunities.
In this passage from the Book of Proverbs, Solomon advises the sluggard to go back to school that he may learn wisdom, for his folly is quite equal to his idleness.
Sift a sluggard grain by grain, and you'll find him all chaff.
