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  • Paradoxically, says Honoré, "Slow" isn't necessarily slow, hence its attachment to the phrase festina lente or "hastening slowly."

    Positive Psychology News Daily 2009

  • As a solution I would draw your attention to ESA where a multi-governmental organisation is making slow but steady progress "festina lente"!

    Changing Course - AGAIN? - NASA Watch 2008

  • There is a well-known and apparently contradictory Latin saying - festina lente!

    ANC Today 2006

  • There is a well-known and apparently contradictory Latin saying - festina lente!

    ANC Today 2006

  • “Festina,” he would say; “festina” by all means; but “festina lente.”

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • She applied herself valiantly as a white ant to repairing her broken home, and, wonderful to relate in this land of no labour, ruled by the maxim “festina lente,” all had been restored within six months.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • "Is the accent on the _festina_ or the _lente_, Father?" he said demurely.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • Dolphin winding about the strangule thereof, which I coniectured should signifie this, ΑΕΙ ΣΠΕΥ ΔΕ ΒΡΑΔΕΟΣ, _Semper festina tarde_.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • 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_.

    The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

  • Deus in adjutorium meum intende: Domine ad adjuvandum me festina.

    The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

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