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Haste Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to…
- Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
- When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?
- A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in…
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an…
- Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions,…
More Haste Quotes
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant… — Jean de la Bruyere
- Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. — Lord Byron
- Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out… — Wallace D. Wattles
- One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even… — Takeda Nobushige
- Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. — William Shakespeare
- Make haste cautiously. — Augustus
- Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. — William Shakespeare
- Haste breeds error; error breeds woe. — Janet Morris
- Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey… — William Shakespeare
- That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. — William Hazlitt