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All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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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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If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
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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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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
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Let valour end my life!
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God is absolutely good and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
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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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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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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
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Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!
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To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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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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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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Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
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