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
running mean men
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
cousin queens aunt
I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!
integrity men evil
He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.
heart matter way
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
life moving world-and-love
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.
wise history may
In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.
easter dust earth
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
talking vanity deeds
Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
beauty years lasts
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
beauty years lasts
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
book cake orange
An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.