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Neglected Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
- Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their…
- Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
- The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day…
- I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
More Neglected Quotes
- A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be… — William Shakespeare
- I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected. — Barack Obama
- We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long… — Ronald Reagan
- It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that… — Saint Augustine
- O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. — Saint Augustine
- Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire
- Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always… — Murray Rothbard