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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the read more
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
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?
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to read more
Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce read more
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
