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
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
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — 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
[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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