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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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Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
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No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
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Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
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Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
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There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.
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It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
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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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Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
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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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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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