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  • There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10
  • When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

  • Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

    Wise   Law   Liberty  
  • The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

    Self   Desire   Speech  
    Sextus (Empiricus.) (1933). “Sextus Empiricus”, Loeb Classical Library
  • God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

    Mark Buchanan (2009). “The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God”, p.191, Multnomah
  • Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

  • Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

    Life   Success   Courage  
  • Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.

    Design   Balance   Genius  
  • Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

    Years   Age   Merit  
    Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.197
  • Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

  • It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

    1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
  • Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

  • Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.

    Men   Missing   May  
  • It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

  • A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

    Fear   Degrees   Produce  
    Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.629
  • None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.

  • We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

    Energy   Want   Habit  
    Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, “Futuristic Manifesto”
  • Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.

    Christian   Eye   Men  
    Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.316
  • Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

    Wise   Pain   Cutting  
    Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.23
  • I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

    Real   Brave   Danger  
    François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.175
  • Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  • Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

    Plot   Shapes   Divinity  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10
  • Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

    Age   Youth   Companion  
  • A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

  • Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

    Pride   Political   Enemy  
    Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.312, Broadview Press
  • Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

    Poul Anderson (2003). “Going For Infinity: A Literary Journey”, p.20, Macmillan
  • Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

    Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.305
  • Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

  • The spectator and historian of [Belisarius's] exploits has observed, that amidst the perils of war, he was daring without rashness, prudent without fear, slow or rapid according to the exigencies of the moment; that in the deepest distress he was animated by real or apparent hope, but that he was modest and humble in the most prosperous fortune.

    Real   War   Humble  
    Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.143
  • When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

    Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183
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