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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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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
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A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
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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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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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Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
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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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