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An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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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Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
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It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.
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Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
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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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Let valour end my life!
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Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
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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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If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.
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Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
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And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
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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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But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.
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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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In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
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