Walter Raleigh Short Quotes

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Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.

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Examinations are pure humbug from beginning to end.

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Shall I, like a hermit, dwell
On a rock or in a cell?

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No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.

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So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

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

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

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Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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

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

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It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

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

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Last Words:
I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell.

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

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It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.

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

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In examinations those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

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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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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.

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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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Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

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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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[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it, nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

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No instrument smaller than the World is fit to measure men and women: Examinations measure Examinees.

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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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As you came from the holy land
Of Walsinghame,
Met you not with my true love
By the way as you came?

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

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Now what is love? I pray thee, tell.
It is that fountain and that well,
Where pleasure and repentance dwell.

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