“Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.”

— Walter Scott , book The Monastery

Source: The Monastery (1820), Ch. 25.

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832

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Ðưa chàng lòng dằng dặc buồn,
Bộ khôn bằng ngựa, thủy khôn bằng thuyền.
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 27–28

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Aviendha to Matrim Cauthon
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“4084. Search not a Wound too deep, lest thou make a new one.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,—a land of romance, adventure, and gold.”

Francis Parkman (1823–1893) American historian

Pt. I, Ch. 3
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

“This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land is made for you and me.”

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician

This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944)

“When Cassius says a mouse can outrun a horse,
Don’t ask how; put your money where your mouse is!
I AM THE GREATEST!”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

"I am the Greatest" (1964)
Context: I am the man this poem’s about,
I’ll be champ of the world, there isn’t a doubt.
Here I predict Mr. Liston’s dismemberment,
I’ll hit him so hard; he’ll wonder where October and November went.
When I say two, there’s never a third,
Standin against me is completely absurd.
When Cassius says a mouse can outrun a horse,
Don’t ask how; put your money where your mouse is!
I AM THE GREATEST!