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 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.] 
 Hasten deliberately.
 [Lat., Festina lente.]  
 Hasten deliberately.
 [Lat., Festina lente.] 
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
 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. 
 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. 
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
 Festination may prove Precipitation;
 Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.  
 Festination may prove Precipitation;
 Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation. 
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?