"Hastiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Angus looked for it, but I did as soon as I got in, and I saw that Mr Keith thought there had been too much hastiness, and perhaps a little worldly-mindedness in Mr Whitefield himself. That may be why he preaches so earnestly against it. We know so well where the slippery places are, when we have been down ourselves. And when we have been down once, ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... general humour of life that these words should have been written by a man who walked the plank to fresh ideas with the dizziest difficulty unless he had Prothero to drag him forward, and who acted time after time with an altogether disastrous hastiness. ...
— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells
... attempt. If things had gone on successfully to the end, it is probable that the kingdom of heaven would have been changed into a kingdom of this world. The design indeed failed, by the impatience and over-hastiness of the multitude; which alarmed not only the chief of the Jews, but the Roman ...
— The Trial of the Witnessses of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ • Thomas Sherlock
... so good a heart that you will excuse the hastiness of expression which escaped me. I am anxious to ...
— Paul Jones • Hutchins Hapgood
... great despair: "Messire, I love that dear lady a great deal more than I love my life; but in this affair I am fulfilling a pledge made upon the honor of my knighthood and unto the King of Cornwall, who himself made me knight. For I pledged him unaware, and now I am paying for my hastiness. Yet I would God that you might take the sword which you hold in your hand and thrust it through my heart; for I had liefer die than fulfil this obligation to which ...
— The Story of the Champions of the Round Table • Howard Pyle
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