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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
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.
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
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.'
