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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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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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.
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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
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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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The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.
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If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
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When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
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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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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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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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A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.
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... but the longest day hath its evening.
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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.
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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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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.
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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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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What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.
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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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