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• I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

  Lois Lowry

  Past, People, Destruction

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Eye, Wings

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128

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• Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

  J. K. Rowling

  Night, Dawn, Midnight

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• The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  Robert Frost

  Moving, Wind, Sky

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, May, Action

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.180, Wildside Press LLC

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• God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame. Through our daily meals He is calling us to rejoice, to keep holiday in the midst of our working day.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Attitude, Holiday

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.

  Iris Murdoch

  Sweet, Humility, Past

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.92, Penguin

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• There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Men, Should Have

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

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• Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

  Igor Stravinsky

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• No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time.

  Robert Breault

  The End Of The Day, Matter, Speed

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• Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

  Robert Breault

  Encounters, Debate, Social

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• The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

  Rajneesh

  Knowing, People, West

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• Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nuts, Perfect, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Plato, or the philosopher”, p.21, Editora Dracaena

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• I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mad, Mind, Normal

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

  Moliere

  Men, Clothes, Giving

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.39, Penguin

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• An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Warrior, Blow, Strikes

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• Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Time, Moving, Fishing

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later.

  Jesse Lacey

  Waiting, Traitor, Disgrace

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• If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

  Stewart Udall

  Eye, America, Decision

  Stewart L. Udall (1988). “The quiet crisis and the next generation”, Gibbs Smith

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• A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste
  Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-
  And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd
  The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Taste, Waste

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.167, University of Virginia Press

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• Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Each Day

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• Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.

  John Dryden

  Friendship, Men, Long

  John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works”, p.184

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• The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

  Jesse Ball

  Past, Men, Voice

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• There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.

  Edward Whymper

  Grief, Thinking, Climbing

  1871 Scrambles Amongst the Alps.

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