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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
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Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
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Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
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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 necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
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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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The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
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The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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I wish I loved the Human Race I wish I loved its silly face I wish I liked the way it walks I wish I liked the way it talks And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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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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A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
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