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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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?
Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]
Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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.'
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
