"All, or the greatest part of men that……" — Walter Raleigh
"All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty."
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Walter Raleigh
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59 Quotes by Walter Raleigh
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath…
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last…
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for…
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be…
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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