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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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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.
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A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.
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