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Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
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.'
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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.
