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The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.
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God is absolutely good and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
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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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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
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All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
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But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.
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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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Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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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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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
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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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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
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