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Better is to bow than break.

— John Heywood

More from John Heywood

  1. The nearer to the church, the further from God.
  2. It hurteth not the tongue to give fair words.
  3. Hold their noses to grindstone.
  4. Two heads are better than one.
  5. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
  6. To tell tales out of school.
  7. When the sky falleth we shall have larks.
  8. To hold with the hare and run with the hound.

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Topics in this quote

  • resilience
  • compromise
  • flexibility
  • war
  • wisdom

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