Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.

Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.

Make haste slowly.

Make haste slowly.

Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]

Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

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.

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.'

Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.

Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.