"If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith."
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"All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties."
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"To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education."
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"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind."
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"Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you."
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"I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic."
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"that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)"
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"I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy"
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"Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher."
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"The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones."
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"Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief."
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"It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them."
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"I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know."
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"The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all."
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"Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them."
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"Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused."
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"Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust."
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"When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything."
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"A prudent man should neglect no circumstances."
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"You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote."
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