Sir Walter Raleigh, (1552-1618) English Officer, Navigator, Colonizer, Historian, Poet, Courtier Quotes
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonwealth, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.
So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie.
PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.
Yet stab at thee who will,
No stab the soul can kill!
Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
Go, Soul, the Body's guest,
Upon a thankless errand;
Fear not to touch the best,
The truth shall be thy warrant.
Go, since I needs must die,
And give them all the lie.