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The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
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.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
