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Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce read more
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
He gets through too late who goes too 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.'
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
