Carefulness

Carefulness is the quality of being attentive to potential danger, error or harm. In countering the potential for error it may refer to being conscientious, painstaking, and meticulous.

Quotes

• Lugalbanda is wise and he achieves mighty exploits. In preparation of the sweet celestial cakes he added carefulness to carefulness.
  • Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird, Ur III Period (21st century BCE).[1]

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 90.

• O insensata cura dei mortali,
  Quanto son defettivi sillogismi
  Quei che ti fanno in basso batter l'ali!
  • O mortal cares insensate, what small worth,
    In sooth, doth all those syllogisms fill,
    Which make you stoop your pinions to the earth!
  • Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, XI. 1.

• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail.
  • Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac.

• For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
  For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
  For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
  For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
  For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost—
  And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
  • Another version of Franklin.

• Every man shall bear his own burden.
  • Galatians, VI. 5.

• Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
  • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).

• Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
  • James. I. 19.

• Care that is entered once into the breast
  Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
  • Ben Jonson, Tale of a Tub, Act I, scene 4.

• Borne the burden and heat of the day.
  • Matthew, XX. 12.

• And ever, against eating cares,
  Lap me in soft Lydian airs.
  • John Milton, L'Allegro, line 135.

• Begone, old Care, and I prithee begone from me;
  For i' faith, old Care, thee and I shall never agree.
  • John Playford, Musical Companion, Catch 13.

• Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares.
  • Plutarch, Morals, Of the Training of Children.

• Old Care has a mortgage on every estate,
  And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.
  • John Godfrey Saxe, Gifts of the Gods.

• For some must watch, while some must sleep:
  So runs the world away.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 2, line 284.

• No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs;
  The incessant care and labour of his mind
  Hath wrought the mure, that should confine it in,
  So thin that life looks through and will break out.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act IV, scene 4, line 117.

• O polished perturbation! golden care!
  That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide
  To many a watchful night!
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act IV, scene 5, line 23.

• Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive,
  For things that are not to be remedied.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I (c. 1588-90), Act III, scene 3, line 3.

• Things past redress are now with me past care.
  • William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act II, scene 3, line 171.

• Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
  And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
  But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain.
  Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
  • William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene 3, line 34.

• I am sure, care's an enemy to life.
  • William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act I, scene 3, line 2.

• I could lie down like a tired child,
  And weep away the life of care
  Which I have borne, and yet must bear.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples.

• Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;
  And every Grin, so merry, draws one out.
  • John Wolcot, Expostulatory Odes, Ode 15.

• And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave,
  Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.
  • Henry Kirke White, Childhood, Part II, line 17.

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