Walter Raleigh Quotes
Top 71 wise famous quotes and sayings by Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
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.
the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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.
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.
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.
Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust.
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust.
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.
The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
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 Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag;
The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee.
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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.
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
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.
Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
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.
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.
Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
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.
I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.