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"You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows." 
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum or Outlandish Proverbs, 1639, p. 243.

Tony Joe White — Hoochie Woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8s5gPnpkQ0

"Beauty's but skin deep; nay, it is not so: It floats but on the skin beneath the skin,
That, like pure air, scarce hides her fullest flow: It is so subtle, vading, fragile, and thin:
Were she skin-deep, she could not be so shallow To win but fools her purity to hallow."
John Davies of Hereford, A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Overburie's Wife, Now a Widow, 1616.

Hanne Boel — Standing On The Edge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0g_507LG7g

"Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, 
That we too may leave behind us — Letters that we ought to burn."
Thomas Hood.

Cheap Trick — Standing On the Edge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEXfwy3gufk

"Too epic for me. There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates."
J. R. Lowell, Fireside Travels, 1864, p. 163 [Fancy an existence.... The dampness seems to strike into the wits.]