Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.

Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.

Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

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.'