All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
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