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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
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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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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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Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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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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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.
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