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The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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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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Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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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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Never spend anything before thou have it for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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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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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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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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Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.
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Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
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[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
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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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The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
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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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No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
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