Quote by Thomas Fuller
Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking

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

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