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
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Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.
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If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
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Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
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Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
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Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
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Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover
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But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
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I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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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.
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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.
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Let valour end my life!
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No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women
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The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.