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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings. — Walter Raleigh

I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"! — Walter Alexander Raleigh

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. — Walter Raleigh

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution. — Walter Raleigh

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. — Walter Raleigh

To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die. — Walter Raleigh

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered. — Walter Raleigh

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake. — Walter Raleigh

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this
the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it. — Walter Raleigh

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject. — Walter Raleigh

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; — Walter Raleigh

False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu!
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. — Walter Raleigh

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. — Walter Raleigh

Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares. — Walter Raleigh

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be. — Walter Raleigh

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody. — Walter Raleigh

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you. — Walter Raleigh

Thou may be sure that he who will tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he ventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred. — Walter Raleigh

The engine is the heart of an aeroplane, but the pilot is its soul. — Walter Alexander Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh once remarked, "the art of magic is the art of worshipping God. — Jason Louv

Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery. — Walter Raleigh

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. — Walter Raleigh

Better it were not to live than to live a coward. — Walter Raleigh

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King. — Walter Raleigh

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. — Walter Raleigh

Hatreds are the cinders of affection. — Walter Raleigh

So the heart be right, it is not matter which way the head lies — Walter Raleigh

Let valour end my life! — Walter Raleigh

Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust. — Walter Raleigh

The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses. — Walter Alexander Raleigh

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. — Walter Raleigh

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth. — Walter Raleigh

Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not. — Walter Raleigh

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred. — Walter Raleigh

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness. — Walter Raleigh

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not. — Walter Raleigh

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell. — Walter Alexander Raleigh

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence. — Walter Raleigh

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self. — Walter Raleigh

The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree;
The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag;
The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee. — Walter Raleigh

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue. — Walter Raleigh

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject. — Walter Raleigh

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice. — Walter Raleigh

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. — Walter Raleigh

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport. — Walter Raleigh

Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England. — Walter Raleigh

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself. — Walter Raleigh

Desire attained is not desire,
But as the cinders of the fire. — Walter Raleigh

But the longest day hath its evening. — Walter Raleigh

Love likes not the falling fruit,
Nor the withered tree. — Walter Raleigh

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing. — Walter Raleigh

I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain. — Walter Raleigh

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. — Walter Raleigh

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend. — Walter Raleigh

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. — Walter Raleigh

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good. — Walter Raleigh

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. — Walter Raleigh

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. — Walter Raleigh

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! — Walter Raleigh

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. — Walter Raleigh

Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over. — Walter Raleigh

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice. — Walter Raleigh

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. — Walter Raleigh

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war. — Walter Raleigh

The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth. — Walter Raleigh

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery! — Walter Raleigh

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude. — Walter Raleigh

If she undervalues me,
What care I how fair she be? — Walter Raleigh

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. — Walter Raleigh

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. — Walter Raleigh

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest. — Walter Raleigh

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. — Walter Raleigh

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year. — Walter Raleigh

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women. — Walter Raleigh

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me. — Walter Raleigh