Sentence:  "...This habit of uselessly wasting time, is the whole difficulty; and it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children that you should break this habit.” When Johnston, who was “<WSD>born tired</WSD>,” proposed to leave Illinois for Missouri, Lincoln scolded him in language that could well have applied to his peripatetic father: "such a notion is utterly foolish. What can you do in Missouri, better than here [in Illinois]?... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Lazy; shiftless.