Hasten slowly. [ Augustus Caesar ]

Make haste slowly. [ Proverb ]

Church-work goes on slowly. [ Proverb ]

Slowly, slowly falls night's curtain
Over all the wide-spread land;
And the angels of the twilight
At the gates of heaven stand.
Lo, they come, a band of angels.
Clad in robes of tender gray;
And before their gracious presence,
Fades the sun's last lingering ray. [ C. E, Charles ]

States are great engines moving slowly. [ Bacon ]

It is the little rift within the lute
That by and by will make the music mute,
And, ever widening, slowly silence all. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Men work but slowly that have poor wages. [ Proverb ]

How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy. [ Saurin ]

To live long, it is necessary to live slowly. [ Cicero ]

Famished people must be slowly nursed,
And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. [ Byron ]

A good judge conceives quickly, judges slowly. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The tree that grows slowly keeps itself from another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word.
And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird. [ Francis Thompson ]

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. [ James A. Froude ]

Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her. [ Hunter ]

The love of ornament creeps slowly but surely into the female heart. [ Mrs. S. C. Hall ]

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly. [ Hazlitt ]

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [ Boileau ]

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. [ James A. Garfield ]

Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly on to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. [ Johnson ]

Remembrance of the dead soon fades. Alas! in their tombs, they decay more slowly than in our hearts. [ Victor Hugo ]

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench. [ Joubert ]

Since the invention of printing no state can now any longer be formed purely, slowly, and by degrees from itself. [ Jean Paul ]

Never be discouraged because good things go on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. [ Charles Dickens ]

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. [ Ouida ]

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. [ J. G. Holland ]

We are not to be astonished that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way. [ Confucius ]

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in it, it still grinds on; but then it is itself it grinds, and slowly wears away. [ M. Luther ]

How dear the sure counsel of a present friend, whose heavenly power failing, the lonely one sinks in silence; for earnest thought and resolution, locked within his breast, are slowly ripened; the presence of the loved one soon warms them into being. [ Goethe ]

There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom: and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain. [ Saville ]

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions - these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term experience. [ G. H. Lewes ]

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]