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The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
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.'
Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
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.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.