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

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

Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]

Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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.'

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?

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

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

Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.