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!
bears may bribery
No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
writing history may
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.
grieving use may
Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
war men may
The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.
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.
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.
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