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D&C 10:4
4 Do not run faster or labor more than you have strength and means provided to enable you to translate; but be diligent unto the end.

These words appear to have been given at a time when Joseph was extremely anxious to finish the translation.

Neal A. Maxwell

The scriptural advice, “Do not run faster or labor more than you have strength” (D&C 10:4) suggests paced progress, much as God used seven creative periods in preparing man and this earth. There is a difference, therefore, between being “anxiously engaged” and being over-anxious and thus underengaged. (“Notwithstanding My Weakness,” Ensign, Nov. 1976, 12–13)
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