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Haste Quotes

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

– The Bible

Song of Solomon 8:14.

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

– Plato

My decision to leave ‘Ween’, however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.

– Gene Ween

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

– Moliere

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain’d his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along.

– Robert Herrick

To Daffodils

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

– Oliver Herford

Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

– Silius Italicus

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

– Thomas Shadwell

Haste is of the Devil.

– St. Jerome

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