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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
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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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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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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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What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.
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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 from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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