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God is absolutely good and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.
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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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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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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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But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
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Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
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But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
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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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It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
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When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.
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Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.
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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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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
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