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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Walter Raleigh
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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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Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
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It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
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I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
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The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.
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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.
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Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
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Never spend anything before thou have it for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
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Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.
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Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.
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The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
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Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
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Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.
Walter Raleigh
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