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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying read more
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
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It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.'
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]
Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.