"Do not spoil the wonder with haste!" — J.R.R. Tolkien

"Do not spoil the wonder with haste!"

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…

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More Haste Quotes

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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors… — 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… — Henri Frederic Amiel
So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you… — Wallace D. Wattles
One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the… — 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… — William Shakespeare
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. — William Hazlitt

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