Neglect Quotes - Page 20

• A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Soul, Looks

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.256

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• There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Fate, Names

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.128

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• Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

  Samuel Johnson

  Emptiness, Impatient, Possession

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.230

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• The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, World, Despise

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• The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Answers, Enough

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.3608, Delphi Classics

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• It is a note
  Of upstart greatness to observe and watch
  For these poor trifles, which the noble mind
  Neglects and scorns.

  Ben Jonson

  Greatness, Mind, Watches

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson ...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Biographical Memoir”, p.137

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• A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

  Henry Fielding

  Law, Forgotten, States

  Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott (1831). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, p.395

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• where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Children, Opportunity

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• It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.

  Andrew Jackson

  War, Party, Giving

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.286

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• She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Heart, Vanity, Glasses

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• What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

  Theodore Parker

  Heart, Asylums, Faces

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.71

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• The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Pride, Men, Common Sense

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• We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

  Orville Dewey

  May, Causes, Rectify

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• O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride;
  O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell;
  O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside;
  O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.31

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• Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.

  Sue Grafton

  Character, Views, Water

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.208, Macmillan

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• For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.

  William Benton Clulow

  Inspiration, Artist, Finishing

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.47

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• I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

  Heloise

  Gratitude, Generosity, Guilt

  Abelard, Heloise “Abelard letters”, Lulu.com

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• If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

  Constance Fenimore Woolson

  Gratitude, Privilege, Ifs

  Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.239, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

  Ovid

  Men, Looks, Care

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.121, Indiana University Press

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• The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

  Washington Irving

  Evil, Englishmen, Preparing

  Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis, Washington Irving (1840). “The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine”, p.520

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• In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

  Samuel Johnson

  Purpose, Visionaries, Care

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.142

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• To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Sleep, Preparation

  The Rambler no. 78 (15 Dec. 1750)

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• The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the example of Lord Bacon may show that the highest intellect cannot safely neglect it, a thousand instances every day prove that the humblest may practise it with success.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Mind, Example

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• My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

  Lea Thompson

  Mother, Kids, Self Worth

  "Lea Thompson Talks Parenting, DWTS And Taking Charge After 50". Interview with Caroline Presno, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.

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• My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

  Thomas Eakins

  Honor, Misunderstanding

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