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• Virtues neglected then, adored become, And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb.

  George Crabbe

  Grace, Virtue, Tombs

  'The Borough' (1810) Letter 2 'The Church' l. 133

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• Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Violence, Upheaval, Conflict

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• Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the duties which he neglects, or the crimes that he commits, but for that negligence and irregularity which he may encourage or inculcate. Every man, in whatever station, has, or endeavours to have his followers, admirers, and imitators, and has therefore the influence of his example to watch with care.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Example, Watches

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.237, Penguin UK

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• Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

  Warren Buffett

  Sloth, Investment, Hallmark

  "In Soccer and Investing, Bias Is Toward Action" by Carl Richards, bucks.blogs.nytimes.com. May 13, 2013.

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• We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

  C. S. Lewis

  Church, Together, Christianity

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Use, Kind

  Napoleon Hill (2016). “Your Right to Be Rich”, p.29, Jaico Publishing House

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• If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Fire, Should

  Martin Luther (1885). “Luther's Table-talk”

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• 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 neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.

  Nassau William Senior

  Political, Principles, Use

  Nassau William Senior (1849). “Political economy”, p.3

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• A balanced tone on Europe will free us to address in depth the domestic, economic and social agenda which we neglected throughout the last parliament.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Europe, Depth, Agendas

  "Edited highlights of Ken Clarke's address". www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2001.

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• What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

  Max Muller

  People, Desire, Done

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.158, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

  Linus Torvalds

  Feelings, Reputation, Study

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• The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof only in the case of entities that are based upon whole and part; then and only then is it an undeniable consequence of the concepts "totum" and "pars". Unfortunately, however, this "axiom" is used innumerably often without any basis and in neglect of the necessary distinction between "reality" and "quantity", on the one hand, and "number" and "set", on the other, precisely in the sense in which it is generally false.

  Georg Cantor

  Reality, Hands, Numbers

  "Cantor's Grundlagen and the paradoxes of Set Theory". Paper by William Tait, www.researchgate.net. June 2001.

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• Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.

  Frank Loesser

  Men

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• God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

  Girolamo Savonarola

  Prayer, Mean, Way

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 124, 1895.

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• This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Bible, Spiritual, Heart

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• The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Toil, Our Love, Ruins

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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• I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar , were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

  Jacob Epstein

  Teacher, School, Drawing

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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• the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

  Oswald Mosley

  Plato, Hero, Men

  "Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale". Book by Nicholas Mosley, 1982.

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• It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.

  Kurt Hahn

  People, Soul, Opinion

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• If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? They have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. ... If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Mean, Idols, People

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 174), 1986.

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• No serious student of the Bible in English can neglect the Revised Version without loss.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Loss, Serious, Students

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VII, The Revision Of The Text, p. 86, 1949.

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• What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Sacrifice, Two, India

  Speech delivered at Gurkula Visvavidyalaya Convocation on 25th April 1943, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

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• Man enjoys living on the edge of his dreams and neglects the real things of the world which are so beautiful. The ignorant and indifferent destroy beautiful things merely by looking at the marble. Things that remake the soul of him who understands them.

  Auguste Rodin

  Beautiful, Dream, Real

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• People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.

  Jack LaLanne

  People, Age, Dies

  Jack Lalanne (2008). “Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness and Finance: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Grace, Desire

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.49

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