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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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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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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Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.
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Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
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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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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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God is absolutely good and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
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