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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.
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If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
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It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
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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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Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
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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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Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
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An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
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Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover
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[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
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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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Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
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So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
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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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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
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And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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