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Walter Raleigh quotes

English Explorer October 29, 1618

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I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"! Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh quote: "But Love is a durable firein the mind ever burning. Never..."
But Love is a durable firein the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself, never turning. Walter Raleigh
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. Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is, That sits and marks still who doth act amiss, Our graves that hide us from the searching sun, Are like drawn curtains when the play is done. Thus march we playing to our latest rest, Only we die in earnest, that's no jest. Walter Raleigh
Thou mayest be sure that he that will in private tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike and hazards thy hatred; for there are few men that can endure it, every man for the most part delighting in self-praise, which is one of the most universal fallies that bewitcheth mankind Walter Raleigh
Even such is Time *Even such is Time, that takes in trust. Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days: But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)*These lines are said to have been composed by Sir Walter Raleigh on the night before his execution. Walter Raleigh
Thou may be sure that he who will tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he ventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred. Walter Raleigh
A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden. Walter Raleigh
When the grand twelve million jury of our sins and sinful fury, 'Gainst our souls black verdicts give, Christ pleads his death, and then we live. Be thou my speaker, taintless pleader, unblotted lawyer, true proceeder. Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh quote: "Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall."
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh quote: "So the heart be right, it is not matter which way the head lies"
So the heart be right, it is not matter which way the head lies Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh quote: "Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too..."
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh quote: "The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are..."
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution. Walter Raleigh
The Wood is that that makes the gallows tree; The Weed is that that strings the hangman's bag; The Wag, my pretty knave, betokens thee. Walter Raleigh
Our taste must always be, more or less, the victim of our limitations, but we should beware of glorying in it, and, above all, we should beware of mistaking the aversions of timidity and sensibility for critical judgments. Walter Raleigh

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