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• 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.

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  Men, Vices, Tongue

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• 'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

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  Medicine, Cures

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• Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

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  Music, Rain, Passion

  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.394

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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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  Friendship, Wise, Art

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.557

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• Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

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  Manners, Ill, Unborn

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.560

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• Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

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  Hate, Hatred, Definitions

  Letter to Sir Robert Cecil, May 10, 1593.

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• The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

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  Men, Differences, Rich

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• I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

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  Light, Brain, Shut Up

  1614 The History of theWorld.

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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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  Soul, Titles, Righteous

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “The history of the world”, p.59

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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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  Dog, Flattery, Knows

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.562

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• Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England.

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  Sea, England, Shipping

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• Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

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  Plant, Seeds

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The history of the world”, p.8

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• Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

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  Memories, Years, Desire

  "Choice Passages from the Writings and Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a Small Sheaf of Gleanings from a Golden Harvest".

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• If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.

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  Inspirational, Success, Two

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.557

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• A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

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  Men, Firsts, Bears

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.1

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• Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

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  Loss, Men, Damage

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• The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

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  Lying, Deceit, Gains

  "The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh".

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• All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

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  Mean, Power, Men

  "The Cabinet Council". Book by Walter Raleigh, Chapter 25, 1658.

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• 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.

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  Men, Life And Death, Speech

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

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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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  Wise, Honesty, Men

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.297

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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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  Men, Thinking, Heaven

  Walter Raleigh (1736). “The History of the World in Five Books”, p.5

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• Even such is time, that takes in trust
  Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
  And pays us but with age and dust.

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  Time, Dust, Joy

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1848). “The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana: With a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa... Etc. Performed in the Year 1595, by Sir W. Ralegh, Knt... Reprinted from the Edition of 1596, with Some Unpublished Documents Relative to that Country. Ed., with Copious Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir, by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk”, p.223

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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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  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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

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

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  God, Causes, Good God

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1820). “The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon”, p.196

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• He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

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  Integrity, Men, Evil

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