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As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

— Anna Akhmatova

Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best…

— Robert Southwell

Things move at their own pace.

— Lily Gladstone

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

— Graham Greene

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

— Henri Barbusse

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

— Anonymous

“This delay (whose importance the reader will appreciate later) was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

— Henry David Thoreau

Hindrances may delay but cant steal away the success.

— Senoraroy

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

— Caecilius Statius

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

— Roger L'Estrange

Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.

— John Hiatt