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Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
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.
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.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.