Neglected Quotes

• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Dark, Dwelling

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• What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

  Ralph Marston

  Love, Inspirational, Thank You

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• It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Inspiration, Doe

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Garden, Woods, Wells

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  Hell is Truth Seen Too Late.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Truth, Philosophy, Too Late

  Quoted by Johnson, Enemies of Society (1977). Johnson's corollary is "Survival is falsehood detected in time."

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• Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

  Ted Chiang

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  Ted Chiang (2007). “The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate”, Subterranean

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• I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

  Harriet Tubman

  Weed, Marijuana, Ignorant

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• You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

  Frank Mir

  Death, Sports, Mma

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• What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Neglect, Born

  "Children for Adoption". Book by Pearl S. Buck, Ch. 3, 1964.

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• I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Opportunity, Half

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• Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.

  Ron Fairly

  Funny, Night, Lasts

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• It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Patriotic, Squares, People

  Time Magazine, January 28, 1974.

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• Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

  Anne Lamott

  Birthday, People, Going The Extra Mile

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• There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

  Hannah Arendt

  Eye, Ill Will, Hands

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nature, Mistake, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Home, Tired, House

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• The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.

  C. Everett Koop

  Country, Children, Play

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• Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Elements, Half

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• That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

  Charles Babbage

  Science, Long, England

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.5

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• Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins. Otherwise man lives in darkness. Meditation enkindles something that is latent in all of us, but needs to be provoked. We are looking outwards. Our backs are at our inner source; hence it is being neglected, ignored. and to ignore one's inner being is the only ignorance. To know it is the only knowledge. All other knowledge is worthless. It may help you in the world but it can't help you in eternity.

  Rajneesh

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

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• Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Religious, Political, Religion

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• Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Husband, Clothes

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• Often when someone apologizes - like a parent who says to a child, "I'm very sorry I neglected you when you were a kid" - they also ask, "Do you forgive me?," because they want the other person to be over it. However, healing can take a great deal of time. And if we forgive too quickly, we cut the process short.

  Harriet Lerner

  Children, Sorry, Healing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our
  concern for the integral development of society’s most neglected members.

  Pope Francis

  Development, Christ, Poor

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.56, BookBaby

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• I feel that women have been neglected, unnecessarily neglected and mistreated personally by the fashion industry and shapewear in that entire category was a definite place that we were neglected.

  Sara Blakely

  Fashion, Categories, Feels

  "Spanx Dallas Grand Opening: Exclusive interview with Sara Blakely". Interview with Natalie Keinan, www.thefashionhour.com. July 9, 2014.

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