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1. Drive your vehicle at a safe speed.
   • Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. Whether you're traveling or in an argument, you better stop when you see red. 2021, Lora Mae Miller, Behold the King: Jesus in Every Book of the Bible:
   • Mr. Kelley often shared trucker wisdom as visitors left him to drive home. His three Rules of the Road apply to life as well as to driving: Keep the greasy side down. Watch the car behind the car in front of you. Don’t drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. 2018 February 12, “Obituaries: William Don Kelley”, in The Vienna Times & Goreville Gazette:
   • Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly is one of my favourite proverbs directed at drivers. 2009, George Epp, What I Meant to Say was, page 120:
2. (figuratively) Do not rush impulsively into things or get carried away by your emotions.
   • The instructor's concluding trope, “Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly,” conveyed the sentiment that agents should not let their emotions get the better of them. 2016, Heith Copes, Mark R. Pogrebin, Voices from Criminal Justice:
   • How do we, who have been the doers, step back and learn to accept or even ask for help of these who are new to caregiving? Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly, they say. 2022, Dianne G. Poppert, Beyond Living Life Underneath: Reflections and Considerations:
   • He gave me a facial expression of recognition, '“Don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly”,' I finished with a smile. 2017, C. J. Michaels, Ladybug, page 240:

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