Richard Cecil Quotes
An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.
Citations
Cecil, Richard. Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil, M.A. Edited by Josiah Pratt, L. B. Seeley, 1811.
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See Robert Burton {596290} for an earlier view with which Jefferson was probably familiar.
Richard Cecil was a leading Evangelical Anglican priest of the 18th and 19th centuries.