Neglect Quotes - Page 4

• The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Self, Teach, Poorest

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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• It is perverse that a nation so rich should neglect its children so shamefully. Our attitude toward them is cruelly ambivalent. Weare sentimental about children but in our actions do not value them. We say we love them but give them little honor.

  Richard Stolley

  Attitude, Children, Giving

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• Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

  Ronald Reagan

  Would Be, Cost, Higher

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Believe, Causes

  J.C. Ryle (1853). “A call to prayer”, p.30, Рипол Классик

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• Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suicide, Fall, People

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• Do not be surprised if you fall every day and do not surrender. Stand your ground bravely and you may be sure that your guardian angel will respect your endurance. A fresh, warm wound is easier to heal than those that are old, neglected, and festering, and that need extensive treatment, surgery, bandaging and cauterization. Long neglect can render many of them incurable. However, all things are possible with God

  John Climacus

  Christian, Fall, Angel

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.130, Paulist Press

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• Our children are humans and deserve to be treated respectfully. Discipline doesn’t include raging, screaming, abusing, neglecting, humiliating, or shaming our kids. God never treats us like that. That sort of discipline never “produces a harvest of righteousness and peace.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Children, Kids, Discipline

  Jen Hatmaker (2010). “Out of the Spin Cycle: Devotions to Lighten Your Mother Load”, p.165, Revell

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• God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Religious, Truth, Hypocrite

  Ronald J. Sider (2005). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

  Lev Grossman

  Ignorance, Rulers

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.246, Penguin

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• A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.

  Sophocles

  Men, Prudent, Should

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• The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophy, Drinking

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• The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

  Julian Baggini

  Trying, Argument, Failing

  "The modern believer is not suspicious enough" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.

  Cate Tiernan

  Fire, Hot, Lovers

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• We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Race, Class

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• Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Coward, Excuse, Accomplish

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• Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

  David Wilkerson

  Evil, Energy, Care

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• Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Art, Eye

  Epicene act 1, sc. 1 (1609)

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• There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Government, Tree

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• Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.

  D. A. Carson

  Believe, Want, Moral

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• When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

  John Woolman

  Strong, Men, Understanding

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.49, Lulu.com

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• I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

  Jane Austen

  Library, Darcy

  Jane Austen, Michelle Pillow (2010). “Pride and Prejudice: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.66, Adams Media

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• I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Mean, Judging

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• The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

  John L. Lewis

  Organization, Greed, Selfishness

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains.

  Susan Vreeland

  Heart, Humble, Hands

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• Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United Sates. It was estimated that 2001,903,000 children were the victims of child abuse or neglect. Child abuse is a crime perpetrated on the innocent and the defenseless.

  Pete Domenici

  Children, Abuse, Problem

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