“Expectation makes a long delay.”
Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)
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“When there are long delays in feedback loops, some sort of foresight is essential.”
Thinking in systems: A Primer (2008)

“Make haste; delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.”
Tolle moras: semper nocuit differre paratis.
Book I, line 281 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia

“Resist beginnings; the remedy comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.”
Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur
Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 91–92

“She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.”
Source: Phineas Finn (1869), Ch. 57

“Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!”
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (1954)