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Let valour end my life!

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
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God is absolutely good and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
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