| Concept: | Haste. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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sauve qui peut, devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost; no sooner said than done (early); a word and a blow; maggire fretta minore atto; ohne Hast aber ohne Rast [German] [Goethe's motto]; "stand not upon the order of your going but go at once" [Macbeth]; "swift, swift, you
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| Antonyms: | leisure |
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| Concept: | Vigor. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally; various qualities of style |
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"thoughts that breath and words that burn" [Gray].
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| Antonyms: | feebleness |
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| Concept: | Requirement. |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional volition |
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there is no time to lose; it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with; mendacem memorem esse oportet [Quintilian]; necessitas non habet legem; nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te
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