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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.
that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims.
All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
The ultimate problem confronting me all my life has been the senseless injury to and neglect of my sister.
Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.
Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
The Conservative government's neglect of social housing is all too apparent and should be a source of national shame.
As a former teacher, it pains me to watch such an essential and rewarding profession suffer due to government neglect.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?
Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.
If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
With a fast pace world and wanting to reach and accomplish goals sometimes we neglect to pause and just enjoy the moment.
Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.
Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.
Coloradans want to take the long view and invest in our state's future. We know that to do this, we cannot neglect our schools.
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it.
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.
Minnesota's diversity should be its greatest strength, but our neglect of nonwhite students has stifled our progress toward growth and equity.
We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is to waste our lives.
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.
It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.