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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
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Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.
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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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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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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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The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
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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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Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
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It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
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Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.
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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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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
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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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Fain would I, but I dare not I dare, and yet I may not I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
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