Definition of Diligence

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Diligence

The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.

Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.

Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

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Diligence Quotations

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
William Penn

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
John Donne

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes

I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.
Henry Hudson

Diligence Translations

diligence in Latin is diligentia
diligence in Norwegian is flid
diligence in Swedish is arbetsamhet, flit

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