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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
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Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
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Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.
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So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
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In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
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