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Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last. — Abraham Lincoln

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect. — David Benioff

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts. — Dalai Lama

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

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all. — Asa Don Brown

That you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny) — Jane Austen

Don't neglect your calling all in the name of employment — Sunday Adelaja

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure. — Henry David Thoreau

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. — George Bernard Shaw

He learned how quickly love died when you weren't looking; if you weren't looking. — Andre Dubus

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling. — Garrison Keillor

This is why some relationships look so beautiful and some look so tragic - beauty belongs to the thoughtful; tragedy to the neglectful. — Bryant McGill

Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times. — Benjamin Whichcote

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. — Edgar Saltus

Prayer makes tremendous power available (James 5:16). Don't let your prayer life reflect weeds of inconsistency or neglect. — Joyce Meyer

Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it? — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life. — Alexandra Katehakis

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse. — Tatum O'Neal

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest. — Francois Lelord

It was a flaking scab on a fleshy field of neglect. — Hunter Shea

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live. — Luc De Clapiers

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty. — Sophie Swetchine

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being. — Eckhart Tolle

I had to cope with her right from when I was little, I looked after her and you. — Jacqueline Wilson

Life is once so do right neglect wrongs. — Wiz Khalifa

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit. — Daniel Kehlmann

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.
- Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen

The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes. — Andrew Harvey

Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Better the cruelty of family than loving neglect that leaves a child unready for a savage universe. — Morgan Blayde

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. — Benjamin Banneker

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today. — Aesop

Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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. — James Dobson

In any relationship, do what is right; not what you want to do. Eliminate selfishness. Eliminate neglect. — Bridget Earl Pehrson

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. — Confucius

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage. — Rick Scarborough

When we neglect God's priority, we become God's secondary. — Sunday Adelaja

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others. — Mencius

But women can bear anything better than desertion. Cruelty is bad, but neglect is worse than cruelty, and desertion worse even than neglect. — Anthony Trollope

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

If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children. — Jesse Torrey

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack. — Ezra Taft Benson

Good things happen when you take action. Bad things happen when you neglect. — John Addison

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. — Nicholas D. Kristof

There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences. — Asa Don Brown

The body that we tend to is only temporary, while the soul that we neglect is # eternal . — Yasmin Mogahed

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context. — John Dewey

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? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has. — Friedrich Schiller

The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us. — James Ellis

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich. — Henry Ford

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum. — Seneca The Younger

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us ... — Constance Fenimore Woolson

Do not just believe in God and neglect the fact that He has an unprecedented belief in you. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real. — Billy Graham

Ironically, the more obsessed we are with our selves, the more we neglect our souls. — John Ortberg

Often, we tend to wrap ourselves around him so tight that we neglect our mission, our purpose, our calling, sometimes our children and even our God — N. Sophronia Crosby

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. — Samuel Johnson

Private prayer is the drill ground for our more public exercises, neither can we long neglect it without being out of order when before the people. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

An awareness had come over him that he wasn't going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so he slept. — Anne Rice

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil. — Washington Irving

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. — Oprah Winfrey

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear. — J.C. Ryle

Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new. — Percy Dearmer

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy — N. T. Wright

If you concern yourself with your neighbor's talents, you'll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both! — Max Lucado

Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range. — Corliss Lamont

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here? — Jonathan Edwards

I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them. — Donna Lynn Hope

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory ... — Asa Don Brown

It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences. — Kurt Hahn

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard. — Ben Okri

What cannot be communicated to the [m]other cannot be communicated to the self. — John Bowlby

Neglect of women is the major cause for the society's downfall. — Abhijit Naskar

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change. — Allen Wheelis

We know so little about ourselves that we often neglect the illusions we create to distract us from finding the answers we need. — Robin Sacredfire

I said, I try to open my mail at least once a year, but sometimes I neglect it. — H.P. Lovecraft

It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed. — Jean De La Bruyere

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees. — E.F. Schumacher

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. — Theodore Parker

But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future. — Seneca.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. — Anonymous

Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. — Joseph Addison

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. — Thomas Carlyle

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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. — Adlai E. Stevenson

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer. — Charles Spurgeon

Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. — Dean Koontz

Wildlife of the world is disappearing ... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect — Prince Philip

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell. — Hans Kung

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself. — Dalai Lama

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor. — Joseph Addison

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. — Hosni Mubarak

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett