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Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover
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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 longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.
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