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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Never spend anything before thou have it for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
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Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.
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If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.
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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
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No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
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God is absolutely good and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
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It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
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