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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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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 bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.
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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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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
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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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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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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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Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
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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 man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
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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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God is absolutely good and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
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Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
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In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.
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Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.
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