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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.'
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.