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Sir Walter Raleigh
7 quotes
“If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.”
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) said by 1618 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) said by 1618 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.”
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) said by 1618 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.”
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) said by 1618 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?”
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) said by 1618 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. [History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.”
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) said by 1618 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretchèd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, _Hic jacet!_”
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) said by 1618 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source