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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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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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Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.
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What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.
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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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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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