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I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
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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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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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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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Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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Fain would I, but I dare not I dare, and yet I may not I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
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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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
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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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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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Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.
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Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!
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It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found everything either ascends or declines when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane if in the second, dangerous if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
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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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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
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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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