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• Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

  William Shakespeare

  Fame

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• I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

  Robert Breault

  Regret, Taken, I Regret

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• Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

  Max Ehrmann

  Peace, Silence, May

  Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

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• Festination may prove Precipitation;
  Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

  Thomas Browne

  Wise, Procrastination, Delay

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals”, p.278

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

  Thomas Shadwell

  Fools Day, World, April

  'A True Widow' (1679) act 3, sc. 1

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• Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Mind, Weak

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.174

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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

  Family, Forgiveness, Wise

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.278

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• Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motto

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• Haste is blind and improvident.

  Livy

  Blind, Blindness

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 39,

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• Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Haste Makes Waste, Leisure

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.103, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• He gets through too late who goes too fast.

  Publilius Syrus

  Too Late, Late

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• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Cynical, Manners

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• Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Mean

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.445, Oxford University Press

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• He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Pay, Tribute

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1922). “Balloons”

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• Don't judge a book by its cover

  George Eliot

  Book, Haste Makes Waste, Judging

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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

  Book, Men, Years

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• The more haste, ever the worst speed.

  Charles Churchill

  Speed, Worst

  Charles Churchill, Robert Southey (1854). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.66

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• Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

  Silius Italicus

  Tides, Fortune, Tidy

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• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

  Moliere

  May, Ends

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• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

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

  Theodore Roethke

  Art, Mean, Damage

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.123, Copper Canyon Press

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• Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Pluck, Modest

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.226

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• My feeling is unless they've somebody lined up and they are convinced he is going to be better than Brian, I think their decision has been made in haste.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Thinking, Decision, Feelings

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