#haste

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

— Plato

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Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone? ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#alone #bed #chaste #god #goddess

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Haste is of the Devil. ↗

— St. Jerome

#haste

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs. ↗

— Silius Italicus

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At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation. ↗

— Ethel Rosenberg

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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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