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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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The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
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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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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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I wish I loved the Human Race I wish I loved its silly face I wish I liked the way it walks I wish I liked the way it talks And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.
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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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