1. "We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo."
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
2. "Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected."
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Sun Tzu, The Art of War
3. "Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness."
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Quote by Nasir-i Khusraw
4. "9† Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, For anger rests in the bosom of fools."
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Thomas Nelson Publishers, Holy Bible
5. "Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it."
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Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
6. "Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die,"
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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
7. "...distraught I seize mine arms…And with my comrades hasten to the hold: frenzy and anger urge my headlong will, and death methinks how comely, sword in hand!"
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Virgil, The Aeneid
8. "To live is to betray the dead. We hasten to bury and forget them because we are ashamed; we feel guilty towards them."
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Elie Wiesel, The Gates of the Forest
9. "But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand."
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Quote by George Eliot
10. "God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either."
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Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians