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• I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle , my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wall, Moving, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.191, Xist Publishing

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• When a decision is taken belatedly, its execution inevitably leads to haste.

  Vasily Chuikov

  Taken, Decision, Execution

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• In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

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• A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

  James M. Cain

  Gun, Men, Drowning

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• And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Self, Mind

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• Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me

  Barry Pepper

  War, Blessed, Fighting

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• Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

  John Milton

  Sports, Laughter, Nymphs

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.59

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• Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

  John Tillotson

  Procrastination, Sleep, Sea

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• the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Lasts, Firsts, Making Money

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

  Alphonse Karr

  Essentials, Ingredients, Calmness

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• Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

  Robert Greene

  Patience, Fall, Ambition

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• My mistake has too often been that of too much haste. But it is not the people's way to hurry, nor is it God's way either. Hurry means worry, and worry effectually drives the peace of God from the heart.

  James O. Fraser

  Mistake, Heart, Mean

  "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 157), 1998.

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• Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never paid dividends. Never wory about the fellow ahead of you. If you start racing to get ahaead of him, he'll probably try to beat you, and from then on it will be nothing but a foot-race instead of a contemplative and inspiring recreation.

  Ray Bergman

  Lakes, Race, Sea

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• No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Quality, World

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.166

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• The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste
  Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare,
  Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste,
  As if it would each root's lost strength repair.

  Jones Very

  Rain, Fall, Roots

  Jones Very (1993). “Jones Very: The Complete Poems”, p.72, University of Georgia Press

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• Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
  Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
  The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
  Your art must be to moderate their haste.

  Ovid

  Running, Art, Moving

  Ovid (1998). “Metamorphoses”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Enemy, Journalism

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• [F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.

  Sarah Fielding

  Marriage, Believe, Men

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• Reckless haste makes poor speed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Speed, Reckless, Poor

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• When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

  Laurence Sterne

  Patience, Men, Ideas

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.215

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• Fair daffodils, we weep to see
  You haste away so soon:
  As yet the early-rising sun
  Has not attained his noon.

  Robert Herrick

  Noon, Rising, Sun

  "To Daffodils" l. 1 (1648)

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• No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

  George MacDonald

  Successful, Men, Riches

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.647, e-artnow

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• Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

  Walter Scott

  Leisure, Repent

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• We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Patience, Hero

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• ... these are the two factors that lead to the destruction of our environment: money and time-or to say it another way, greed and haste. The question is, or seems to be, are we going to have an immediate profit and an immediate saving of time, or are we going to do what we really should do as God's children?

  Francis Schaeffer

  Children, Two, Greed

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