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It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
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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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It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found everything either ascends or declines when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.
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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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There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
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I wish I loved the Human Race I wish I loved its silly face I wish I liked the way it walks I wish I liked the way it talks And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
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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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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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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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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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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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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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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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Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
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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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