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It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
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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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Let valour end my life!
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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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When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
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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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The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution whatsoever is now, was heretofore and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
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The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!
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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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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
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The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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