Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury famous 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.
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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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By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
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I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.
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I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me.
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If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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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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