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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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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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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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Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
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... but the longest day hath its evening.
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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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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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[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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If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
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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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It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.
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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.
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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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Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.
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God is absolutely good and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
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