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.'

Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]

Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

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?

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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

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

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.]

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.