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.]

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

Make haste slowly.

Make haste slowly.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

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.'

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.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
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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.