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• Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

  Walter Raleigh

  Vanity, Touching, Religion

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.563

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• Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

  Walter Raleigh

  Time, Dark, Dust

  Written the night before his death, and found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster. V. B. Heltzel 'Ralegh's "Even such is time"' in 'Huntingdon Library Bulletin' no. 10 (October 1936) p. 185

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• Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

  Walter Raleigh

  Past, Thinking, World

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.116

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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Eye, Design, Wells

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.99

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• Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

  Walter Raleigh

  Death, Men, And Love

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “The history of the world”, p.271

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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Hope, Giving, Joy

  'The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage'

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• And when I'm introduced to one
  I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

  Walter Raleigh

  Fun, Wish, Age

  "Wishes of an Elderly Man" l. 1 (1923)

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• Let valour end my life!

  Walter Raleigh

  History, Ends, British History

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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  God, Men, Understanding

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world”, p.184

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• Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

  Walter Raleigh

  Love, Writing, Opportunity

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.111

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• The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

  Walter Raleigh

  War, Men, Body

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.93

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• Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams:
  The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
  So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
  The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
  They that are rich in words, in words discover

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  Passion, Romantic Love, Yield

  Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Silent Lover I”

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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Wine, Desire, Spices

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.355

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• But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

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  Eye, June, Rose

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.721

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• All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

  Walter Raleigh

  Wise, Men, Evil

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• Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
  I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.

  Walter Raleigh

  Play, Care, May

  Sir Walter Raleigh (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

  Walter Raleigh

  Book, Orange, Cake

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• There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

  Walter Raleigh

  Change, Heaven, Mutation

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.93

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• ... but the longest day hath its evening.

  Walter Raleigh

  Time, Evening

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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Writing, History, Teeth

  'The History of the World' (1614) preface

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• Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Flattery, Praise

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works”

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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Errors, Matter

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The history of the world”, p.112

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• Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

  Walter Raleigh

  Fall, Hiking, Anxiety

  Line written on a window-pane, in Thomas Fuller 'The History of the Worthies of England' (1662) 'Devonshire' p. 261.

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• I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

  Walter Raleigh

  Being Yourself, Book, Writing

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• Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

  Walter Raleigh

  Romance, Affair, Love Affair

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