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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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Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.
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The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
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In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.
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I wish I loved the Human Race I wish I loved its silly face I wish I liked the way it walks I wish I liked the way it talks And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
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Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.
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Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.
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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
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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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It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
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Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
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Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
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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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The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
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