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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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Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
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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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It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
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The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!
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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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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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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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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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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
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There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
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Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
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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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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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