haste is from the devil

haste is from the devil

1633 J. HOWELL Familiar Letters 5 Sept. (1903) II. 140 As it is a principle in chemistry that Omnis festinatio est a Diabolo, All haste comes from Hell, so in..any business of State, all rashness and precipitation comes from an ill spirit.

1835 SOUTHEY Doctor III. lxxxiii. If any of my readers should..think that I ought to have proceeded to the marriage without delay..I must admonish them in the words of a Turkish saying, that ‘hurry comes from the Devil, and slow advancing from Allah.’

1929 Times 12 Sept. 14 Listening patiently to the views..[f]or he understood the East; he knew that for an Intelligence officer ‘haste is from the devil.’


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