Neglect Quotes

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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how… — Niccolo Machiavelli
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all… — Aristotle
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as… — Walter Lippmann
Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming. — Unknown Author
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. — Washington Irving
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after… — John Ruskin
Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. — Samuel Johnson
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. — John Donne
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone. — Wendy Wasserstein
I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar… — James Madison
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was… — Ernest Gaines
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect… — Barbra Streisand
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect. — Bob Dylan
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected.… — Leland Ryken
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but… — Nassau William Senior
We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the… — Edward Burnett Tylor
Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth;… — Vance Havner
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate… — Derek Bok
I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without… — Rutherford B. Hayes
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice. — Allan Kardec

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