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 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.] 
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
 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. 
 I go, I go, look how I go,
 Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.  
 I go, I go, look how I go,
 Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. 
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying read more
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
 Celerity is never more admired
 Than by the negligent.  
 Celerity is never more admired
 Than by the negligent. 
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
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?
 Stand not upon the order of your going,
 But go at once.  
 Stand not upon the order of your going,
 But go at once.