Walter Raleigh famous quotes

03-26-2025

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

#Vanity #Talking #Deeds
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Easter #Dust #Earth
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.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Life #Moving #World
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.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Running #Mean #Men
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Hatred #Affection
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Memories #Years #Desire
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Heart #Way #Matter
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Medicine #Disease #Physicians
It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Men #Vanity #Delight
The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Men #Nuts #Ivy
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Men #Differences #Eating
It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.
-- Walter Raleigh

#War #Ambition #Home
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Beauty #Years #Lasts
Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Joy #Heaven #Soul
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Men #Flattery #Praise
Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Evil #Imperfection #Shadow
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!
-- Walter Raleigh

#Kings #War #House
Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Light #Pops #Glances
Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!
-- Walter Raleigh

#Son #May #Bless
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
-- Walter Raleigh

#Song #Journey #Patches
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Ambition #Thinking #Littles
Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Men #Estates #Borrowing
Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Plant
I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Light #Brain #Shut Up
It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.
-- Walter Raleigh

#Kings #Pirate #Glorious

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