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God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.
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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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And when I'm introduced to one
I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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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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What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.
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Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
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If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim.
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Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
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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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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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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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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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Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
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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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Go, Soul, the body's quest,
Upon a thankless arrant:
Fear not to touch the best,
The truth shall be thy warrant:
Go, since I needs must die,
And give the world the lie.
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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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In examinations those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
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[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it, nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
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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.
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I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell.
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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Born:
January 22, 1552
Died:
October 29, 1618
(aged 66)
Bio:
Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English scholar, poet and author.
Known for:
The Discovery of Guiana
The poems of Sir Walter Raleigh
The letters of Sir Walter Ralegh
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