“Hasten slowly, and without losing heart,
Put your work twenty times upon the anvil.”

— Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Hâtez-vous lentement ; et, sans perdre courage,
Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage.
Canto I, l. 171
The Art of Poetry (1674)

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Hâtez-vous lentement ; et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage.

The Art of Poetry (1674)

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French poet and critic 1636–1711

Jorge Eduardo Lozano (1955) Catholic archbishop

Source: “Don’t allow the dreams God put into your hearts to be stolen,” Argentinean bishop says https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/10471/dont-allow-the-dreams-god-put-into-your-hearts-to-be-stolen-argentinean-bishop-says (24 September 2007)

“Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.”

Kristin Cast (1986) American writer

“But it will work, man. If you put your heart into it, it will.”

Chetan Bhagat book The 3 Mistakes of My Life

Source: The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), P. 18

“Put your hands to work and give your hearts to God.”

Ann Lee (1736–1784) English Shaker leader

The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)

“The only way to hasten the kingdom is to hasten growth; to hasten work, and that, too, along the very lines in which the "resounding loom of time" is weaving in its various-colored threads.”

John Bascom (1827–1911) American academic administrator

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 269.

“In love, in friendship, in work and in life: put your heart into it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) In amore, in amicizia, nel lavoro e nella vita: mettici il cuore.
Source: prevale.net

“Harmonize your day by putting music and words in time with your heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Armonizza la tua giornata mettendo musica e parole a tempo con il cuore.
Source: prevale.net

“One should hasten to put such witches to death.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Statement of 20 August 1538; as quoted in Conversations With Martin Luther (1915), translated and edited by Preserved Smith and Herbert Percival Gallinger, p. 163