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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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Never spend anything before thou have it for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
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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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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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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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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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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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The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
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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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The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.
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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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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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Let valour end my life!
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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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I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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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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What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!
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'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
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