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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.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
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.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
