“An oak is not felled by a single blow of the axe.”
Per lo primo colpo non cade la quercia.
Seventh Day, Ninth Story (tr. J. M. Rigg)
The Decameron (c. 1350)
“6319.
Little Stroaks
Fell great Oaks.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1750).
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Little Stroaks
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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734Related quotes
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Context: You will say, 'How can chance assemble in one place all the things necessary to produce an oak tree?' My answer is that it would be no miracle if the matter thus arranged had not formed an oak. But it would have been a very great miracle if, once the matter was thus arranged, an oak had not been formed. A few less of some shapes, and it would have been an elm, a poplar, a willow, an elder, heather or moss. A little more of some other shapes and it might have been a sensitive plant, an oyster in its shell, a worm, a fly, a frog, a sparrow, an ape or a man.
“A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long!”
Henry Fothergill Chorley
(1808–1872) English literary, art and music critic and editor
The brave old Oak (lyrics, 1837).
John Clare
(1793–1864) English poet
The Shepherd's Calendar: "July" (second version) http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/clare/july2.html
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“Heart of oak are our ships,
Heart of oak are our men;
We always are ready.”
David Garrick
(1717–1779) English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer
Hearts of Oak. Compare: "Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men", S. J. Arnold, Death of Nelson.
