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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Neglect |
| A wise and salutary neglect. Burke—Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. II. P. 117. | 1 |
| Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace: Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Ben Jonson—The Silent Woman. Act I. Sc. 1. | 2 |
| His noble negligences teach What others’ toils despair to reach. Prior—Alma. Canto II. L. 7. | 3 |
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