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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

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

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

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.]

Make haste slowly.

Make haste slowly.

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

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

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

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

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

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.