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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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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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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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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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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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The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.
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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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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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Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.
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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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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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It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
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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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Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
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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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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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God is absolutely good and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
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Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.
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