Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury quotes
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“A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.”
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“Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature.”
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“Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.”
-- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of CherburySource : "To his Mistress for her True Picture". Line 11,
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“Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.”
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“In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.”
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“Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.”
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“The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.”
-- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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“There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders.”
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“I have seen many lean riders in the peloton, but very few Tour winners”
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