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“Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.”

Source: Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)

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

Land Horse Spurs Unbroken Too Deep

Book:Works

Source: Works

“That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.”

Fall Evil Pleasure Feet Horse Stuck Graves Posts Meals Sickness Going Away Spurs Horseback Oxen

Author:Joseph Hall

“Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!”

War Hard Fighting Blood Broken Proud Draws Horse England Gentleman Arrows Spurs Archer Yeoman

Book:The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III

Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III

“With flowing tail and flying mane, Wide nostrils never stretched by pain, Mouth bloodless to bit or rein, And feet that iron never shod, And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod, A thousand horses - the wild - the free - Like waves that follow o'er the sea, Came thickly thundering on.”

Pain Bits Sea Feet Thousand Mouths Horse Wave Wide Flying Iron Tails Spurs Reins Wild Horses Inspirational Horse

Author:Lord Byron

“en you show up to work and put on your undergarments, throw on your suspenders and your cowboy boots, throw some dirt on you, and then get on your spurs, you start to walk a bit different. When you put on your gun belts, you change again. You go through this whole transformation process. All that stuff changes you. Riding a horse changes the way you walk and your demeanor.”

Way Different Whole Shows Stuff Bits Process Walks Gun Horse Transformation Boots Riding Dirt Cowboy Belts Spurs Demeanor Cowboy Boot Suspenders Undergarments

Author:James Badge Dale

“If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.”

Ifs Devil Horse Thee Spurs

Author:Thomas Adams

“In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.”

Men Lasts Order Military Horse Analysis Boots Spurs Military Man

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Continue to spur a running horse.”

Running Horse Spurs

Book:Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.

“And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, you whom I ride now, as we stand pawing this stretch of pavement? It is death. Death is the enemy. It is death against whom I ride with my spear couched and my hair flying back like a young man's, like Percival's, when he galloped in India. I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”

Men Firsts Young Desire Enemy Hair Proud India Horse Wave Strikes Flying Perceive Young Man Rising Riders Advancing Spurs Spears Fling Arches Pavement Unyielding

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.”

Knows Way Life Hard Young Difficult Bears Smart Destruction Horse Whips Spurs Carts Very Smart

Book:Gösta Berling's Saga

Source: Gösta Berling's Saga