#hast

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. ↗

— Horace Mann

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So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#big #business #craft #english #generalization

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error. ↗

— Moliere

#error #haste #road #unreasonable

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#cannot #chastity #her #woman

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#after #ghastly #normal #over #postal

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. ↗

— Ovid

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Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#chastity #could #delayed #dull #experience

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed. ↗

— Plato

#little #much #penalty #speed #suffer

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive? ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

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