Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven. From LearnThat.org. [Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)]
Afforded no opportunity on that journey to kill Claudius, he discovers the unexpected, an occasion to make use of what he calls rashness. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Their lives have lost, your rashness is the cause. From Wordnik.com. [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference
Your rashness has been the cause of our destruction. From Wordnik.com. [National Epics] Reference
I come to repair the evil of which my rashness was the cause, and to prevent more evil. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
Thy succour was ever near when I intimated the least want of it; and it imbitters my own misfortune to know that my rashness has been the cause of your disaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Betrothed] Reference
I am sorry that you should think me rash, if the idea of rashness is unpleasant to you -- I will make any other concession in reason rather than quarrel with you. From Wordnik.com. [Taquisara] Reference
The valor which has not prudence for its basis is termed rashness, and the successful exploits of the rash are rather to be ascribed to good fortune than to courage. From Wordnik.com. [Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote] Reference
In this respect there is "rashness," which denotes absence of counsel, as stated above (Q. 53, A. 3). From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Nothing in rashness -- so that ye may keep. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference
See to what rashness and impatience have brought you. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The Viscount's rashness and impetuosity would ruin all!. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
There was nothing of vindictiveness, nothing of rashness. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Simon hoped that it was, for he had repented his rashness. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts' Good Turn] Reference
He was telling him that Herzog's rashness caused him much anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mexico by his rashness and cruelties, was now the lieutenant of the. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
Gorka's rashness, would only expose to light the moral conditions which. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His friends pointed out the rashness of the project and urged him to abandon it. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Of his bravery, amounting even to rashness, there can be no reasonable question. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Thank Heaven, we have a gastronomic instinct that saved us from acts of suicidal rashness!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Yet it was, ironically, the product of my rashness that I had found their habitation at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
Beware of rashness, but, with energy and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Abaquir was delighted, and perceived not till next day the rashness of the engagements he had made. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Mr. Dalton, we are neither of us young now, and have both, I trust, outlived the rashness of youth. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
When blamed by Arthur for his rashness, he laughed, and promised that he would not incur the risk again. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
His self-possession, his cool judgment, swayed neither by timidity nor rashness, never for a moment failed him. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
War suits them, and the rascals are brave, fine riders, bold to rashness, and dangerous subjects in every sense. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
But she had laughed at him, so derisively, that Timothy, goaded into rashness by the laughter, had kissed her with. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
The consciousness of deceit, of concealment, and of childish rashness, rendered his manner hesitating and embarrassed. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
I do not advise rashness, but I do desire resolution and actual fighting, with necessary casualties, before you retire. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The third thing proper to man by his constitution, is, to avoid all rashness and precipitancy; and not to be subject to error. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Shannon, intended to show, by the conduct of a party of young people, that rashness and disobedience are no proofs of courage. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Certainly no professional burglar, nor, indeed, any creature in his senses, would have ventured to emulate my surprising rashness. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
If he loses the confidence vote, he says he'll step down -- prompting even close associates to denounce his rashness as "suicidal.". From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
I received your letter, but, deciding you deserved a certain amount of punishment for your rashness, purposely delayed answering you. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference
If I make war with you, you will suffer for your rashness; your men will be destroyed, and your women and children carried into captivity. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
"If we can get a letter to him, rest assured we shall do so," promised Belle, though her sister rather raised her eyebrows at the rashness of the pledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
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