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Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
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.'
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
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.