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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
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is thisthe 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
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 trustOur 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
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
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[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
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 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
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
