Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 quotes
"He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion."
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have be
"He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion."