#haste

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

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Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#haste #leisure #love #men

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. ↗

— Albert Camus

#before #body #daily #death #get

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#careful #chaste #clean #command #faithful

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way. ↗

— Mike Love

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Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. ↗

— Milarepa

#hasten #shall #slowly #soon

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

#haste #slowest #thing #world

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#art