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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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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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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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Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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... but the longest day hath its evening.
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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
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Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
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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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No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
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It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
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There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.
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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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Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
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