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So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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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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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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
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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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If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.
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Fain would I, but I dare not I dare, and yet I may not I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
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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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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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There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.
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