Walter Raleigh Quotes

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• Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
• Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular…
• Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
• Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
• The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
• No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
• Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
• Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year;…
• Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to…
• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
• There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let…
• This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
• O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world…
• 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…
• [It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
• Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of…
• The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
• He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who…
• I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I…
• No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

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