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assiduousness and industry — the virtue of hard work rather than the sin of careless sloth. It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the...

after May 1641) was an English poet, prominent among those renowned for careless gaiety and wit – the accomplishments of a cavalier poet. He also invented...

involved the failure to care for or attend to something due to oversight or carelessness. In law, negligence that leads to an injury may be compensable. People...

common nonsense. Henry David Thoreau, Paradise (To Be) Regained (1843). A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch...

That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ~ (died 6 October 1892) proposed...

twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture! Robert Browning, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845), Home Thoughts...

and incapable of selfish trickery and intrigue, but he is habitually careless and insouciant, loves ease, and hates contests and squabbles, and though...

Shipwreck (1762), Canto I, line 426 Such words fall too often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia … they seemed...

Composite Nationality" (7 December 1869), Boston, Massachusetts Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. Albert...

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Harper & brothers, 1892, p. 63 Whoever is careless with truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. Albert...

is a term indicating ranges of assertions or actions which are deemed careless, inconsiderate, inattentive, exhibiting marked indifference or lack of...

Wilkinson, Forsythe, and Henrici, took great pains to publicize the risks of careless reliance on machine arithmetic. These risks are very real, but the message...

on, Like children playing in the sun, are gone—for ever gone; And on a careless, sullen peace, my double-fronted mind, Like Janus, when his gates are shut...

how languid our exercise of grace, when an unbelieving, a worldly, or a careless spirit, interrupts our walk with God! But, if the out-goings of our souls...

passes in good part, And keep the hiccups from the heart. John Byrom, Careless Content. In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little...

if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can...

impression her arrival had made on her, and had assumed that superficial, careless tone which, as it were, closed the door on that compartment in which her...

nothing in them, make a song. Edmund Waller, To Mr. Creech, line 10. A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a...

water. She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, Act IV (1703). I don't see it. The Careless Husband (1704), Act ii, scene 2. Old houses mended, Cost little less than...

world-loving souls, because the thief comes unexpectedly. In trying to save the careless and indolent along with themselves, many perish with them, because in course...