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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
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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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Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.
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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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Never spend anything before thou have it for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
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... but the longest day hath its evening.
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If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.
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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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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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The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found everything either ascends or declines when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.
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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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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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