Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man. - Francis Quarles

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Francis Quarles: "Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man."

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Bird	Dead	Devil	Doing
Easily	Escape	Find	Fliers
Fowler	Idle	Idleness	Living
Nothing	Purpose	Rather	Selfmade
Sepulcher	Shot	Sits	Swallows
Thee	Virtues

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