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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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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution whatsoever is now, was heretofore and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
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No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
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Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover
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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.
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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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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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