Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

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.

I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

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

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

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

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.'