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• Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Live Life, Needs, World

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• The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

  Richard Whately

  Abuse, Rebuilding, Revolution

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.71

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• Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Journey, Destination

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• We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Fate, Presidential

  "Remarks upon signing the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Bill". October 24, 1963.

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• Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.

  Socrates

  Past, Thinking, Track

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• Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.

  Roger Bacon

  Learning, Ignorance, Science

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• For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Justice, Wicked

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Charles Duke Yonge (1853). “The Treatises of M.T. Cicero: On the Nature of the Gods; On Divination; On Fate; On the Republic; On the Laws; and On Standing for the Consulship”, p.417, London : H.G. Bohn

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• It is sad to see anyone neglecting their body no matter who they are and what they do. You simply cannot be healthy or look great on the outside if you are not healthy on the inside.

  Miranda Kerr

  Healthy, Looks, Body

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• Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.

  Petrarch

  Writing, Hands, Mind

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• Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.

  Richard Baxter

  Hurt, Prayer, Sacrifice

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.224

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• With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

  Victor Hugo

  Weed, Men, Effort

  Victor Hugo (2008). “Les Misérables”, Random House LLC

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• If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I’d have to say, don’t neglect your family. Politics is important, sitting at the head table is glamorous. Traveling around the world, trying to do something for world peace was wonderful. But family and friends and faith are what really matter in life. And I know that. I see it so clearly now.

  George H. W. Bush

  Faith, Peace, People

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Boys, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.77

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• A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

  William James

  Family, Power, Men

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

  Andrew Bonar

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

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• History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.

  Dexter Perkins

  Sarcastic, Opportunity, People

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• Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.

  Teresa of Avila

  Determination, Advice, Mind

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.178, A&C Black

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• Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

  Aristippus

  Philosophy, Science, Waiting

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• Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

  Plato

  Greed, Democracy, Excess

  Plato (1963). “The Republic”

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• Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Men, Should

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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 husbands and fathers.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Father, Women

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.412

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• Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Mistake, Trying, Doe

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again.

  Ai Yazawa

  Giving, Realizing, Importance

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• I'll just go over to the Duke's," I said. "Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there and open all my presents, and talk about how my parents neglect me, and then maybe the Duke will give me some of her presents because she feels so bad about how my mom doesn't love me.

  John Green

  Mom, Giving, Parent

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• I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Father, Should, Angry

  Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.15, Macmillan

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