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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
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?
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
The more haste, ever the worst speed.
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.'
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.