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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.
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Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
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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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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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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane if in the second, dangerous if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
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Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.
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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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Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
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Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.
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Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
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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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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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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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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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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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