Man is an animal that cannot ...

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.
Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.
 George Stillman Hillard

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Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.
 George Stillman Hillard
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
 George Stillman Hillard
One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the intellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.
 George Stillman Hillard
For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust, The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.
 George Stillman Hillard