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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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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.
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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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Let valour end my life!
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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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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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An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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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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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
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So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
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I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
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The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution whatsoever is now, was heretofore and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
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What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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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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If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.
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... but the longest day hath its evening.
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