Quotes of Improvident - somelinesforyou

“ It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little. ”

- Hannah More

“ They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion — not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. ”

- William Faulkner

“ The financial condition of the Erie at this time manifested the beginning of that general policy of improvidence and recklessness which afterward, for nearly a generation and a half, made the company a speculative football in some of the most disreputable games of Wall Street stock-jobbers. ”

- John Moody
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