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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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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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Let valour end my life!
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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
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... but the longest day hath its evening.
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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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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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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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I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
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Never spend anything before thou have it for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
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Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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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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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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