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• Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

  Walter Raleigh

  Loss, Men, Damage

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• All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

  Walter Raleigh

  Mean, Power, Men

  "The Cabinet Council". Book by Walter Raleigh, Chapter 25, 1658.

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• Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  Walter Raleigh

  Hate, Hatred, Definitions

  Letter to Sir Robert Cecil, May 10, 1593.

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• I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of God before the world created, the finite wisdom of mortal men hath no perception of it; neither can it limit the seat of infinite power, no more than infinite power itself can be limited; for his place is in himself, whom no magnitude else can contain.

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  Men, Thinking, Heaven

  Walter Raleigh (1736). “The History of the World in Five Books”, p.5

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• Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.

  Walter Raleigh

  Soul, Titles, Righteous

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “The history of the world”, p.59

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• According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.

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  Men, Life And Death, Speech

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.564

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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Differences, Rich

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• Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

  Walter Raleigh

  Manners, Ill, Unborn

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.560

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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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  Men, Vices, Tongue

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• The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

  Walter Raleigh

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.568

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• Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

  Walter Raleigh

  Plant, Seeds

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The history of the world”, p.8

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• God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

  Walter Raleigh

  God, Causes, Good God

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1820). “The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon”, p.196

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• It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

  Walter Raleigh

  Kings, Pirate, Glorious

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• No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

  Walter Raleigh

  Women, Fool, Garments

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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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  Wise, Honesty, Men

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.297

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• But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

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  Dog, Flattery, Knows

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.562

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• 'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

  Walter Raleigh

  Medicine, Cures

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• If she undervalues me,
  What care I how fair she be?

  Walter Raleigh

  Famous Love, Care, Pale

  Sir Walter Raleigh (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

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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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  Integrity, Men, Evil

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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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  Running, Nature, Mean

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.89

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• Desire attained is not desire,
  But as the cinders of the fire.

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  Fire, Desire

  Sir Walter Raleigh (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics

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• This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

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  Death, Medicine, Physicians

  Sir Walter Raleigh (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (Illustrated)”, p.206, Delphi Classics

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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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  Men, Firsts, Bears

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.1

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• There is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.

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  Friendship, Wise, Art

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.557

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• If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

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  Beauty, Years, Lasts

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