People earnestly seeking what they do not want, while they neglect the real blessings in their possession, I mean the innocent gratification of their senses, which is all we can properly call our own.
Neglect Quotes
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarlity well. Neglect nothing; the most trivial action may be performed to God.
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
Treachery? I could wish we could prove there was anything of that in it, for that would imply some wit and thoughtfulness; but we are ruined merely by folly and neglect.
If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it.
Children measure their own life by the reaction, and if purring and humming (are) not noticed, they begin to squeal; if that is neglected, to screech; then, if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms if you do nothing, contented; but […]
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
