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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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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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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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