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Death1 quote
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!... Thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet (here lies). — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1614Death as equalizer1 quote
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!... Thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet (here lies). — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1614Government1 quote
Whoso 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. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618International politics1 quote
Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618Love1 quote
But true Love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1580Nature of time1 quote
Even such is time that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust! — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618Passion1 quote
Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618Political power1 quote
Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618Political theory1 quote
Whoso 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. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618Relentlessness of time1 quote
Even such is time that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust! — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618Rest1 quote
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1590Setting up a government1 quote
Whoso 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. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618The only constant is change1 quote
But times do change and move continually. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1599Time1 quote
Even such is time that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust! — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618True love1 quote
But true Love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1580