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It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.
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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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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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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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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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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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If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.
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[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
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A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
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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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Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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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 longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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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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Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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