“The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.”
Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English poet
Book IV, no. 2, Epigram.
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“The next way home's the farthest way about.”
Book IV, no. 2, Epigram 2. Compare: "The longest way round is the shortest way home", Bohn, Foreign Proverbs (Italian).
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