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

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
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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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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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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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And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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... but the longest day hath its evening.
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What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
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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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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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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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A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.
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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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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
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Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.
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