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• You are yoked with a lamb,
  That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
  Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank,
  And straight is cold again.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Fire, Lambs

  William Shakespeare (1865). “Tragedies”

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• Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

  Hideki Tojo

  Respect, War, Justice For All

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• I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Government, Political

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Success, Judgement, Thousand

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• Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Prayer, People

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• Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behaviour, fondness for dress, on theother hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.

  Emil Kraepelin

  Adventure, Hands, Bipolar

  "Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia".

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• I don't believe in hasty marriages.

  Anna Held

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

  Agnes de Mille

  Greed, Missing, Curiosity

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• Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.

  Yi Sun-sin

  Moving, Mountain, Movement

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• Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Scotch, Dancing

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

  John Buchan

  Past, Giving, Darkness

  John Buchan (1923). “Great Britain: The Nations of To-day : a New History of the World”

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• I didn't tell him I was a virgin, just that I hadn’t done it “that much.” It hurt a little more than I'd expected but in a different way, and he was nervous too and he never came. Afterwards we lay there and talked, and I could tell he was a really nice person. I commended myself for making a healthy, albeit hasty, partner choice. I really couldn't wait to tell my mom.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, Hurt, Nice

  "Absolute Beginners". www.rookiemag.com. March 30, 2012.

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• There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Men

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic

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• If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

  Francis Beaumont

  Forgiveness, Men, Silence

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• Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't promise we'll ever use you for a hasty getaway," Cole said, "but with a little work, you might be able to race my grandmother-while she's on her scooter.

  Gena Showalter

  Grandmother, Race, Promise

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.258, Harlequin

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• Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

  Robert Jordan

  Time, Son, Wanted

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• Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving, Heart, Watches

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• But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

  Gloria Whelan

  Children, House, Cooking

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• Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Sweet, Land

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• Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

  Samuel Johnson

  Teacher, Angel, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.294, Harvard University Press

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• Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Effort, Understanding, Impatient

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.174, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• "Connected" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous... I don't doubt that instant communication has been good for business, even for the publishing business, but it has done nothing for literature, and might even have harmed it. In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there is too much) with ideas (of which there are too few). I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected.

  Paul Theroux

  Confused, Communication, Ideas

  "Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings". Book by Paul Theroux, 2000.

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• Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Thinking, People

  Jane Austen, David M. Shapard (2012). “The Annotated Pride and Prejudice: A Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.26, Anchor

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• Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wells

  1592 Richard of Gloucester. HenryVI PartThree, act 4, sc.1, l.18.

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