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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
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?
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.
