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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.
Walter Raleigh
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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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If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.
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Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
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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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Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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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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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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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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No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
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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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... but the longest day hath its evening.
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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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