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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?
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
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.]
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.