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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5974/">Quotes by <em>Raleigh, Sir Walter</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!"

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"Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds."

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"Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish."

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"No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women."

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"All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered."

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"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."

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"But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend."

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"Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be."

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"Hatreds are the cinders of affection."

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"Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time."

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