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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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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The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
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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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Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
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The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.
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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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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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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
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Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
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There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.
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