Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.

Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.

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 is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

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

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

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

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

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?

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce read more

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.