01c. 1585 ADIf 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.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
02c. 1585 ADFain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
03c. 1585 ADPassions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
04c. 1585 ADSilence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
05c. 1585 ADGo, 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.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
07c. 1585 ADCowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
08c. 1585 ADEven 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 / quote ↗
13c. 1585 AD[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
14c. 1585 ADO eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretchèd greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
15c. 1585 ADRemember the divine saying, He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
17c. 1585 ADIt 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.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
18c. 1585 ADThere is nothing more becoming any wise man, than to make choice of friends, for by them thou shalt be judged what thou art: let them therefore be wise and virtuous, and none of those that follow thee for gain; but make election rather of thy betters, than thy inferiors.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
19c. 1585 ADThou mayest be sure that he who will in private tell thee of thy faults is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike and doth hazard thy hatred.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
20c. 1585 ADThere never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
21c. 1585 ADThe tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
22c. 1585 ADSpeaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words, is a niggard in deed.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
23c. 1585 ADExcept thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
24c. 1585 ADIf thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.Sir Walter Raleigh / quote ↗
