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Walter Raleigh quotes: Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings. Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. 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 quotes: The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution. The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Walter Raleigh quotes: The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
Walter Raleigh quotes: To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die. To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
Walter Raleigh quotes: All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered. All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
Walter Raleigh quotes: An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake. An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
Walter Raleigh quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject. The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
Walter Raleigh quotes: PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
Walter Raleigh quotes: False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew. False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu!
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares. Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
Walter Raleigh quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody. Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
Walter Raleigh quotes: 'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you. 'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
Walter Raleigh quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King. It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over. Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Hatreds are the cinders of affection. Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Walter Raleigh quotes: So the heart be right, it is not matter which way the head lies So the heart be right, it is not matter which way the head lies
Walter Raleigh quotes: Let valour end my life! Let valour end my life!
Walter Raleigh quotes: Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust. 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 quotes: No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest. No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Better it were not to live than to live a coward. Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery. Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
Walter Raleigh quotes: 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. 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 quotes: No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred. Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
Walter Raleigh quotes: The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness. The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not. Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Prevention is the daughter of intelligence. Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,And can be bought with nothing but with self. Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.
Walter Raleigh quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue. Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
Walter Raleigh quotes: There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject. There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice. Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
Walter Raleigh quotes: It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport. It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
Walter Raleigh quotes: But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Walter Raleigh quotes: A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
Walter Raleigh quotes: Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Walter Raleigh quotes: [It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. [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 quotes: God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good. God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
Walter Raleigh quotes: 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. 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 quotes: So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
Walter Raleigh quotes: I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain. I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
Walter Raleigh quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Love likes not the falling fruit,Nor the withered tree. Love likes not the falling fruit,
Nor the withered tree.
Walter Raleigh quotes: But the longest day hath its evening. But the longest day hath its evening.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Desire attained is not desire,But as the cinders of the fire. Desire attained is not desire,
But as the cinders of the fire.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself. Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England. Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.
Walter Raleigh quotes: I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me. I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Walter Raleigh quotes: The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
Walter Raleigh quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war. The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.
Walter Raleigh quotes: The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth. The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.
Walter Raleigh quotes: Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery! Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
Walter Raleigh quotes: Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude. Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
Walter Raleigh quotes: If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be? If she undervalues me,
What care I how fair she be?
Walter Raleigh quotes: Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
Walter Raleigh quotes: War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
Walter Raleigh quotes: This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
Walter Raleigh quotes: But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
Walter Raleigh quotes: 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. 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 quotes: If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year. If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
Walter Raleigh quotes: No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women. No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

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