# 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).

### 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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