Principality Quotes by Walter Raleigh

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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…
• 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…
• Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or…
• 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…
• This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

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