Best duty & neglect Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.”

Shows Duty Please Ruins Neglect Traps Toil Our Love Flattering

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.”

Men World Wonder Atheism Duty Morality Positive Atheism Treated Neglect Veils Oppressors Incumbents Dens

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

“Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.”

Doe Causes Interest Duty Boredom Neglect

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.”

Ifs Care Purpose Duty Proportion Neglect Anticipation Employed Only Time Provision Visionaries

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.”

Enough Duty Good Things Neglect

Author:Sophie Swetchine

“Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.”

Littles Seems Duty Ought Suspects Neglect Deceiving

Book:Maxims and gleanings from the writings of E.B. Pusey, selected by C.M.S.

Source: Maxims and gleanings from the writings of E.B. Pusey, selected by C.M.S.

“For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.”

Life Home Moral Duty Depends Concern Oneself Neglect Phases Discharge Moral Duty Phases Of Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

“I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.”

Knows Men Way Shows Might Religious Lord Wife Failing Serious Duty Anxiety Meetings Privilege Various Neglect Pardon Misgivings

Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse

“At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.”

Want Feels I Can Animal Position Duty Comfort Training Bounds Luxury Neglect Respectability Caged Caged Animal

Book:The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892

Source: The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892

“You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.”

Duty Sake Neglect

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“It's always important to draw a line somewhere in a respectful way where you're still approachable, you're still there for the people and meeting them halfway, but you're not neglecting your own duties and your own time to rejuvenate to be able to do it again.”

People Way Stills Important Able Lines Duty Draws Meetings Neglect Halfway Respectful

Author:Chuck Ragan

“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.”

Soul Spirit Language Prayer Meditation Duty Intention Tongue Wander Neglect Imperfect Our Prayers Recessions Wandering Thoughts

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical

“It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.”

Ifs Men Doe Suffering Interest Subjects Duty Authority Understood Every Man Ease Neglect Permit Careless

Book:The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.”

Made States Born Duty Citizens Criminals Neglect

Author:William Randolph Hearst

“More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.”

Self Left Interest Duty Neglect Self Interest Undone

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.”

Men Doe Duty Attractive Neglect Importance Of Being Earnest

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.”

Ifs Poor Situation Duty Worship Devil Relation International Servant Neglect International Relations Worship God Working For God

Author:Ramsay MacDonald

“We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.”

Trying Failing Military Duty Neglect

Author:Robert Baden-Powell

“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”

Ifs Men Father Literature Women Wife Duty Citizens Words Of Wisdom Husband Creatures Rational Neglect Good Wife Vindication Husband And Father

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.”

Men Mind Feelings Religion Strong Understanding Pleasure Cases Duty Drink Members Regard Casts Neglect Disorder Appetite Indulge Civil Society Strong Drink

Book:journal

Source: journal

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