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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Witty, Love Is, Silence

  Sir Walter Raleigh, “The Silent Lover II”

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• Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

  Walter Raleigh

  Perseverance, Hands, Enemy

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.97

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• The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Nuts, Ivy

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

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• When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Done, Littles

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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Vanity, Vices

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• Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

  Walter Raleigh

  Ambition, Thinking, Needs

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

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• Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

  Walter Raleigh

  Son, May, Bless

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• The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

  Walter Raleigh

  Kings, War, House

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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!

  Walter Raleigh

  Cheer, Giving, Abuse

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• Love likes not the falling fruit,
  Nor the withered tree.

  Walter Raleigh

  Fall, Tree, Likes

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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  War, Jealous, Men

  "A Collection of Literary Essays".

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• The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

  Walter Raleigh

  War, Law, Action

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.254

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• In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.

  Walter Raleigh

  Friendship, Feelings, Desire

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