Walter Raleigh Quotes
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If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.
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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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Our passions are most like to floods and streams;The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.
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Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation.
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All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
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Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.