"A professional man of letters, especially if he……" — Walter Raleigh
"A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden."
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59 Quotes by Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- 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…
- Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for…
- 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…
- This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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