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
eternity
Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
giving joy gowns
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.
women fool garments
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
men hands evil
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.
vanity touching religion
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.
romance affair love-affair
Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
two insightful quality
If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.
friendship feelings desire
In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
war jealous men
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.
play care may
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.
death ambition pride
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!
opportunity youth
Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.
fire desire
Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.
men evil occasions
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.