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.'

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

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.

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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

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