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The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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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Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
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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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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
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In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.
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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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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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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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Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
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An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.
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It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
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In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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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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There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution whatsoever is now, was heretofore and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
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