A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues;… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be… — 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… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what… — 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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