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The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.