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• 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

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

  Walter Raleigh

  Death, Medicine, Physicians

  Sir Walter Raleigh (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (Illustrated)”, p.206, Delphi Classics

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• No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

  Walter Raleigh

  Wise, Honesty, Safety

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• Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.

  Walter Raleigh

  Heaven, Joy, Soul

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

  Walter Raleigh

  Fire, Desire

  Sir Walter Raleigh (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (Illustrated)”, p.37, Delphi Classics

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• If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

  Walter Raleigh

  Beauty, Years, Lasts

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• Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

  Walter Raleigh

  Grieving, Comfort, Use

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• The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern a wife and family, so, if thou stay long, thou shalt hardly see the education of thy children, who, being left to strangers, are in effect lost; and better were it to be unborn than ill-bred; for thereby thy posterity shall either perish, or remain a shame to thy name.

  Walter Raleigh

  Children, Names, Wife

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• 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

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• The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

  Walter Raleigh

  Spring, Flower, Fall

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.708

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• In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

  Walter Raleigh

  Wise, History, May

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1687). “The History of the World, in Five Books”, p.3

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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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Life, Mother, Passion

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1965). “Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry”

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• O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

  Walter Raleigh

  Death, Ambition, Pride

  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.370

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• Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.

  Walter Raleigh

  Life, Pain, Mind

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: -7. The history of the world”, p.54

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

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  Life, Self, Divine

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.715

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• Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

  Walter Raleigh

  Eternity

  'The History of the World' (1614) preface

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• Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

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  Trust, Caring, Special

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.557

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• Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Giving, Desire

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works”, p.565

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• Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.

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  Light, Pops, Glances

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• Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

  Walter Raleigh

  Vanity, Touching, Religion

  Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.563

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• Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

  Walter Raleigh

  Time, Dark, Dust

  Written the night before his death, and found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster. V. B. Heltzel 'Ralegh's "Even such is time"' in 'Huntingdon Library Bulletin' no. 10 (October 1936) p. 185

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• Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

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  Past, Thinking, World

  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.116

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• Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Hands, Evil

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.124

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• Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

  Walter Raleigh

  Hope, Giving, Joy

  'The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage'

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• Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

  Walter Raleigh

  Death, Men, And Love

  Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “The history of the world”, p.271

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