All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident. From LearnThat.org. [Titus Livius (Livy), Roman historian.]
How are the 'improvident' -- 'harum-scarums' to live if you are not present to minister to their wants -- upon the best of security? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Foss River Ranch] Reference
He was merely a self-centered, impecunious, improvident. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Soul; and as merry and improvident, as so many Grass-hoppers. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference
There was no extravagant or improvident display on the occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference
Therefore every improvident step will meet with terrible revenge. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference
These men were always improvident and never seemed to think ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
The Le Poers were distinguished for being improvident, daring and reckless. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
The bargain, even if it had been honestly carried out, was improvident enough. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
Count Dravikine, had capped her sister's black marriage by one wildly improvident?. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Or do you wish to prepare them for the revocation of these improvident concessions?. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
Another class is composed of helpless infants, with or without improvident mothers. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
It has been the practice to divorce the improvident mother from her dependent children. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
He tends to be dirty, lazy, and improvident, as is to be expected, when left to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
However, now that you've brought the thing into camp, it would be improvident not to eat it. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
"I fear thou art indeed improvident," she continued, "if thou leavest thy future to others.". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
From the day that provisions had began to be scarce he had been the same improvident laggard. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Foreign loans were precarious and improvident; the market rate of interest was eight per cent. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
"Give us," said the five improvident maidens, "give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out.". From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
My Dad was a young, happy-go-lucky Irish lad, a hard worker, a free liver, and surely improvident. From Wordnik.com. [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference
After that they trudged off again with their mittens and scarfs like any other improvident wretches. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
But in resumption the suffering falls where it belongs, on the careless, the improvident, and the over-trader. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
This fiscal trick amounted to the state's borrowing the money itself, of course, but it didn't look as improvident. From Wordnik.com. [The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb] Reference
An improvident man, as the world uses the term, he undoubtedly had been, but this arose from a defect of character. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
It's this way, Gussy: most people are too improvident and unimaginative to see in advance the advantages of ticklers. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
After harvest, with its high wages and cheapness of provision, the laborer frequently became wasteful and improvident. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Try and reform an habitually indolent, or improvident, or drunken person, and in a large majority of cases you will fail. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
He loves idleness, he has little conception of right and wrong, and he is improvident to the last degree of childishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Therefore, when he realized it, he was neither surprised nor revolted by the improvident egotism of which he was the victim. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And such accidents, as they are mildly termed by the improvident builders, often occur by the failure of drains imperfectly laid. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
To relinquish a revenue so essential seemed highly improvident at a time when new and large drains upon the Treasury were contemplated. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The Banias have thus ousted numbers of improvident proprietors of the cultivating castes, and many of them have become large landlords. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
They counseled caution and reserve against an improvident investment of extensive capital in schemes which still be only regarded as experimental, and which might prove its grave. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
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