festina lente
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Sitting there you must embrace the ancient, contradictory notion of festina lente: to make haste slowly.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2018
I wanted to tell him about the labyrinth, about festina lente, about the Dictaphone in his glovebox.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2018
He would gain more in the end if he would festina lente.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
The motto of Buller's Army was festina lente and its track towards Ladysmith was in zigzag.
From A Handbook of the Boer War With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans by
I would venture to suggest that the motto of a reformer of prize law should be festina lente.
From Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920) by Sir Thomas Erskine Holland
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