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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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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
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Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
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But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.
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Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
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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 liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover
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No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.
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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
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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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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
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All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
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