Slighted Quotes - Page 2

• Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

  Samuel Johnson

  Opportunity, Mind, Advantage

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• I think the gay community, as a whole, is slighted by high-profile figures who remain in the closet. But I think that a lot of times we need to ask ourselves what that person's role in our community would be if they were out of the closet.

  Christopher Rice

  Gay, Thinking, Community

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• The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.

  Aldous Huxley

  Self, Feelings, Outsiders

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and illuding answers. They easily perceive when they are slighted or deceived, and quickly learn the trick of neglect, dissimulation, and falsehood, which they observe others to make use of. We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children; since, if we play false with them, we not only deceive their expectation, and hinder their knowledge, but corrupt their innocence, and teach them the worst of vices.

  John Locke

  Children, Taken, Teaching

  John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Jealous, Men, Thinking

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.161, Oxford University Press

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• Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both alike required;Our Gods forgotten, and our Souldiers slighted.

  Francis Quarles

  God, Deliverance, Forgotten

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• Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Sports, Thinking, Hair

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• We have reached the point where we can lose a game or two and not drop out of sight in the rankings. I've been asked if it bothers me that BYU hasn't received the recognition it deserves. Well, BYU's gotten a lot of recognition over the years; I've never felt slighted. I honestly believed that we didn't deserve to be ranked any higher last year.

  LaVell Edwards

  Sight, Years, Byu

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

  George Crabbe

  Grace, Virtue, Neglect

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

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• People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Instant

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Leadership, Senior, People

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• Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

  William Cowper

  Goodbye, Farewell, Diversity

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.94

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