Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.
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For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked
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Acts 6:1:
In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
(NIV)
NOW ABOUT this time, when the number of the disciples was greatly increasing, complaint was made by the Hellenists (the Greek-speaking Jews) against the [native] Hebrews because their widows were being overlooked and neglected in the daily ministration (distribution of relief).
(AMP)
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
(KJV)
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
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Politics is an enterprise in which disagreement is very frequently overlooked in the pursuit of political success.
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Acts 17:30:
In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
(NIV)
Such [former] ages of ignorance God, it is true, ignored and allowed to pass unnoticed; but now He charges all people everywhere to repent (to change their minds for the better and heartily to amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins)
(AMP)
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
(KJV)
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So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.
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It is better to looked over than overlooked.
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If things appear to be going well, you have overlooked something.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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