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
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.
life self divine
Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.
men life-and-death speech
According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.
life pain mind
Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
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.
perseverance hands enemy
Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.
history ends valour
Let valour end my life!
dead durable fire itself love mind
Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.
esteemed fools garments gay man women
No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women
daily itself large led
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
follow happily history modern near shall strike truth
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
deed lavish sign speaking words
Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed
head heart lies matters
If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies
ask cannot questions wish
In examinations, those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.