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Haste Quotes - Page 4

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

1658 Last words. Quoted in John Morley Oliver Cromwell (1900), bk.5, ch.10.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.35

As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.

William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.72, Cengage Learning EMEA

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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

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

In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

"Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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

Plato (1871). “Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman”, p.547

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.209