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Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

Walter Raleigh

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Walter Raleigh
Died: 1618
Died: October 29
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Trust few men above all, keep your follies to yourself.
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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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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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Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
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It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.
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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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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
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It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found everything either ascends or declines when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.
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There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
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Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
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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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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
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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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So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
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