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Walter Raleigh Inspirational Quotes (112)

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The cavalry, in particular, were not friendly to the aeroplane, which it was believed, would frighten the horses.
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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
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So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
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Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover
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Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
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There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
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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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Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
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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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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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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.
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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.
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
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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.
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Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
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In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.
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The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
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Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
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