#haste

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. ↗

— William Godwin

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Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days. ↗

— Jane Grey

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Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. ↗

— Oliver Herford

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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. ↗

— Aaron Hill

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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? ↗

— Horace

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