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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.'
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
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?
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.