W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American New Thought author
As quoted in How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without : 18 Ways to Become Indispensable (2006) by Glenn Shepard
“Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.”
Attributed to John Mair, not John Muir, in Toasts and Tributes, edited by Arthur Gray (Rohde and Haskins, New York, 1904) page 154.
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José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. A nation that neglects either of these forces perishes. They must be steered together, like a pair of carriage horses.
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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Of Punishment.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
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“Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.”
Jacques Delille (1738–1813) French poet and translator
Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis.
Malheur at Pitié (1803), canto I.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Source: 1962, Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York (549)
“Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”
Robert Herrick book Hesperides
"Neglect".
Hesperides (1648)