Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleighwas an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He was cousin to Sir Richard Grenville and younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth22 January 1552
son may bless
Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
song journey patches
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
evil imperfection shadow
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
men estates borrowing
Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
worst dies
To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
men thinking heaven
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.
life mother passion
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.
taken matter events
What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!
ambition thinking littles
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
eye june rose
But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.
world opinion travel-the-world
It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
bears may bribery
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
past thinking world
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.
plant seeds
Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.