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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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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
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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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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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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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