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Haste, Hurry

Make haste slowly. – Proverb

I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness. – Napoleon Bonaparte

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. – Will Durant

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the heaven. – Thomas Fuller

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. – Milarepa

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written. – Charles A. Stoddard

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. – James Thurber