“All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.”
“All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.”
Walter Raleigh
“...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.”
Raleigh Trevelyan, Sir Walter Raleigh : Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier--The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethian Age“It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.”
Walter Raleigh“A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden.”
Walter Raleigh“He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.”
Walter Raleigh“False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.”
Walter Raleigh“PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;”
Walter Raleigh“All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.”
Walter Raleigh“I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.”
Sir Walter Raleigh“I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.”
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