Quotes by Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh

‘Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

Cures

Medicine

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

Mean

People

Tyrants

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!

Journey

Patches

Song

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.

Life And Death

Men

Speech

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Evil

Men

Wise

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Evil

Men

Occasions

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.

Mean

Men

Power

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

Book

Cake

Orange

And when I’m introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Age

Fun

Wish

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Religion

Touching

Vanity

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Book

British History

Cake

Caring

Change

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Coward

Cowardice

Cures

Dark

Death

Deeds

Desire

Dies

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Divine

Dog

Done

Drinking

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Easter

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Enemy

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Fool

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Quotes by Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh

‘Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

And when I’m introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

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