There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
Death by starvation is slow.
There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Life is short and progress is slow.
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.
Impatience is a virtue.
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.