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
world opinion travel-the-world
It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.
past thinking world
Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
change heaven world
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
execution world prison
The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
men errors world
There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling.
sea navy world
Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
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