Walter Raleigh Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Running, Nature, Mean

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

• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  Walter Raleigh

  War, Order, Ruins

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.122

• 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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Evil, Imperfection, Shadow

• 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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Life And Death, Speech

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

• 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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Vices, Tongue

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