"Historians desiring to write the actions of men,……" — Walter Raleigh
"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 choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time."
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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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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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O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done;…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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