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The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

— Jeremy Collier

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Eccl. Hist. (Ed. 1852), IV. 241. Friar Elston's words, when threatened with drowning by Henry VIII, according to Stow, quoted by Gasquet. Same idea ascribed to Sir Humphry Gilbert when his ship was wrecked off Newfoundland. (1583). Idea taken from an Epigram of Leonidas of Tarentum. See Stobæus—Greek Anthology. Jacob's appendix. No. 48.

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