rashness

Example Sentences

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Rashness and too great anxiety to get at the foe seem, indeed, to have been the cause of a great many casualties.

From Paris War Days Diary of an American by Barnard, Charles Inman

Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis

I think I repeated again that I would go home and bewail my Rashness in making more haste than good Speed.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Next I must obtain your Pardon for my Rashness.

From The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold by Dearing, Vinton A.

Fear, for example, is the feeling of which excess is Cowardice and defect is Rashness, while the mean is Courage.

From Notes on Islam by Hussain, Khaja Muhammad