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Festination may prove Precipitation;
Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Christian Morals (pt. I, sec. XXIII), (paraphrasing Caesar)
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Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: To a Haggis
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Hasten deliberately.
[Lat., Festina lente.]
Author: Augustus Caesar
Source: quoting a Greek proverb, according to Aullus Gellius (X, 11, 5)
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The more haste, ever the worst speed.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: The Ghost (bk. IV, l. 1162)
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I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: She Stoops to Conquer (act I, sc. 2)
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Quick enough, if good enough.
[Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]
Author: Saint Jerome
Source: Epistle (LXVI, par. 9), (Valler's ed.)
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Haste is of the Devil.
Author: Saint Jerome
Source: Epistle (LXVI, par. 9), (Valler's ed.)
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What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?
Author: Saint Jerome
Source: Epistle (LXVI, par. 9), (Valler's ed.)
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Too great haste leads us to error.
[Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Source: Sganarelle (I, 12)
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Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Source: Sganarelle (I, 12)
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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 208)
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Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Prologue to the Satires (l. 208)
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Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at III, vii)
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Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life and Death of King John (King John at IV, ii)
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Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at III, iv)
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I go, I go, look how I go,
Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at III, ii)
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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.'
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii)
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Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, iii)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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To do two things at once is to do neither.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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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.
Author: William Penn Adair Rogers
Source: None
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Source: None
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Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Author: Milarepa
Source: None
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Nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
Author: Al Bernstein
Source: None
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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Make haste slowly.
Author: Augustus Caesar
Source: None
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