Neglect Quotes
648 Neglect quotes by 487 unique authors
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Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
— William Wilberforce
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Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life.…
— David Wilkerson
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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty…
— John Woolman
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The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing…
— Julian Baggini
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All of us humans have myriad other species to thank. Without them, we couldn't exist. It's that simple, and we can't afford to ignore them,…
— Alan Weisman
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
— William Shakespeare
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When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by…
— Edith Wharton
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I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy
— Jane Austen
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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,…
— Susan Vreeland
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Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.
— Cate Tiernan
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The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to…
— William Penn
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Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They…
— Ray Bradbury
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Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.
— Eckhart Tolle
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What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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