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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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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A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
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Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!
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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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In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
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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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Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
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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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No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
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What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!
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All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
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Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
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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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