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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and
what he pleaseth.
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and
what he pleaseth.
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
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How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a
hundred sons one father.
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a
hundred sons one father.
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
