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The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
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?
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.
