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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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A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.
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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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Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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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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If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.
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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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War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
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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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Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!
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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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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.
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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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Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
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Let valour end my life!
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And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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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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