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Never spend anything before thou have it for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.
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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
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There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.
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If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
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Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
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Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
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