Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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The more haste, the worse speed.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs”” (1659) [compiler]
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A few pages later, Howell quotes John Heywood (1546) the analogous "The more haste, the less speed."
See also See Augustus and Publilius Syrus.
