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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
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A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
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Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
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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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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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Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
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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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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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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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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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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
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But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
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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.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.
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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
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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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