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Let valour end my life!

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
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Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
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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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The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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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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Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
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I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
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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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A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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