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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.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
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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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Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
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Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
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The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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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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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.
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The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
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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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Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
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No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
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