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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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No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
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It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.
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It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
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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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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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The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.
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Never spend anything before thou have it for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
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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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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.
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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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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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Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
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The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
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Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
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He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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