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I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

William Shakespeare

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

William Wilberforce

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J. K. Rowling

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Colin Powell

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Publilius Syrus

It's long been known substance abuse has a significant correlation with abuse and neglect.

Terri Jacobs

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it.

Sir Philip Sidney

This is a big challenge. There's been more than 30 years of decay and neglect that has run down the infrastructure tremendously.

Dan Speckhart

These are ... sites that have a history of contamination, all of which are linked to massive neglect.

Klaus Toepfer

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Ettiene De Grellet

We are holding a sit-in to protest the neglect shown to us by the government.

Irshad Ahmed

The pressure is there because there's been benign neglect. We know it's decaying. We know it's not safe.

Sen Jackie Winters

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

It was the victim of neglect.

John Mcpherson

Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.

James Wyatt

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

They don't require a lot of care. Benign neglect is the best way to grow them.

Bob Antilla

I saw a lot of abuse and neglect come through the door. I decided I wanted to get more hands-on in educating the public, so I started doing this.

Susan Harris

It's at the court's discretion. The petition is filed, and the court makes the decision whether board members are neglecting their duties as such, which rises to the level of removal.

Scott Shewell

We are far better prepared to deal effectively with a public-health threat than we were in 2001, a time when America's public-health infrastructure was crumbling due to decades of neglect.

Leah Devlin

In both areas it seemed like there were not enough resources to deal with the damage. In New Iberia, neglect was the main problem. In New Orleans, it was disorganization.

Laura Simocko

It is dreadful that so many animals had to suffer in this case because of serious ongoing neglect.

Phil Wilson

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Mark Rutherford

The majority of the houses were built during her tenure, and she did nothing to improve the infrastructure. Now we have a plan. These new houses are going to make up for decades of neglect down there.

Jim Reeve

The normal dog case involves neglect, but here, we've gone far beyond neglect. We have a situation where the allegation is dogs used for fighting.

Alex Taylor

Our teachers also are aware that they basically have to serve two masters. You have to prepare students to do well on the DSTP, but you can't neglect the fact that students have to do well on the SAT.

Kevin Fitzgerald

A lot of people neglect that.

Heidi Johnson

Families entrust the elderly to these facilities for 24-7 care. When the care is neglectful and that leads to all this suffering and problems, the family feels betrayed.

George Gray

It does not mean you come here to present artists' work and neglect local charities; nor do art festivals and exclude working with the children, which are the lifeblood of the community.

Jay Lebow

If he's guilty of anything, he's guilty of being neglectful.

Ronald Williams

What she has there shows knowledge of painting. The children are very well done. It also shows knowledge of child abuse and neglect.

John Bohac

Colorado has become the pothole of civil neglect.

Charles Sheketoff

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Rose F. Kennedy

Economic growth is the key to living standards and improving quality of life and I feel that to neglect economic growth is to create more inequalities between Scotland and elsewhere.

Jim Mather

We had been experiencing some neglect and lack of attention from the candidates.

Irene Stein

We're not neglecting that (low-end) market. We're going to come up with a new strategy. We're developing it at the moment. We're almost ready to deploy it.

Skott Ahn

These are people on the front lines of human safety. They see issues like child abuse, a lack of affordable housing, senior citizen neglect and the eroding fabric of the most challenged communities.

William Bell

We're not getting any backing or assistance from them. We feel they're neglectful of their duties. We charge that they are not standing behind the Navajo Nation.

Charles Morrison

Members of the public health community have been highlighting our national neglect of public health infrastructure for decades.

David L. Katz

It's a matter of neglect and poor preventative maintenance.

David Hamm

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

William Lamb Melbourne

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

James A. Froude

I don't think they're in immediate danger. I think it's long-term neglect.

Kerry Manion

This case has been very one-sided from the beginning, ... There is absolutely no basis of child abuse or neglect. These are happy children.

David Sherman

Saltwater tanks aren't harder to create than freshwater tanks. They are just a heck of a lot less forgiving. You can't neglect a saltwater aquarium like you can fresh.

Glen Wentworth

It certainly points toward some sort of neglect, I guess you would say.

Donte' Stallworth

The major security and intelligence services in the West are missing a lot by neglecting the enormous amount of writing on the Internet, first of all because this is in Arabic.

Reuven Paz

It's important to get the community involved. We are reaching out to the kids in the area, and we're giving money to groups and individuals who work with kids to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Tony Melendez

This is a social blowout, it is the result of years of neglect of the problems of the Kurds.

Hasip Kaplan

A lot of them are disappearing, either from neglect or natural disasters. They're very fragile. We had a flood in 2002 and we lost two buildings. We would have lost the dance hall itself, had it been in the path.

Neal Brown

We believe there has been a consistent pattern of neglect to the transmission and distribution center at Edison for a period of years now.

Pat Clark

Somebody said on TV the other night that New Orleans had died. New Orleans was murdered. Neglect and greed murdered New Orleans.

Cyril Neville

We could turn what has been a success and the Yellowstone grizzly is a success into something with a different ending with neglect.

Louisa Willcox

You cannot neglect a fire officer's order to help.

Paul Valletta

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Helen Clark

They oftentimes like neglect. You don't want to water them unless they need it.

Don Garling