#haste

The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

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The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#chaste #most #never #something #them

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

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Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste. ↗

— Gene Ween

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. ↗

— Janos Bolyai

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The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down. ↗

— Leon Foucault

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The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. ↗

— William Godwin

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