Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Alfin s'invecchia amore
Senza quest' arti, e divien pigro e lento,
Quasi destrier che men veloce corra,
Se non ha chilo segua, o chi 'l precorra.
Canto V, stanza 70 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet
Variant: Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet
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As translated by Richard Crawley (1951)
History of the Peloponnesian War
“Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.”
Julia Cameron book The Artist's Way
Source: The Artist's Way
“The road must run save first and fast afterward.”
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“And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.”
Guillaume Apollinaire book Alcools
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Espérance est violente
"Le Pont Mirabeau" (Mirabeau Bridge), line 13; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 193.
Alcools (1912)
“No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.”
T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader
On lies and truth - "TB Joshua Rejects Courts Findings, Insists Building Collapse Was A Sabotage" http://citifmonline.com/2015/07/10/tb-joshua-rejects-courts-findings-insists-building-collapse-a-sabotage/ Citi FM, Ghana (July 10 2015)