festina lente
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I wanted to tell him about the labyrinth, about festina lente, about the Dictaphone in his glovebox.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2018
Sitting there you must embrace the ancient, contradictory notion of festina lente: to make haste slowly.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2018
A breakwater is now in progress at Horta, but the work is proceeding with the customary festina lente method of the Portuguese.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by R. T. (Robert Taylor) Pritchett
It is in more classical dialect, the festina lente motion.
From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms
He has had much ado to get his squadron ready, for no nation understands better than the Spanish the virtue of the adage festina lente.
From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole
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