“I see you off and sorrow—Oh, to be
your horse on land, your vessel on the stream!”
Đặng Trần Côn (1710–1745) writer
Ðưa chàng lòng dằng dặc buồn,
Bộ khôn bằng ngựa, thủy khôn bằng thuyền.
Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 27–28
“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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