| 10 Famous Quotes by Sir Walter Raleigh
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“If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?”
Chastity Quotes Source: written the night before his death, see Bayley's "Life of Raleigh"
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“But in vain she did conjure him,
To depart her presence so,
Having a thousand tongues t' allure him
And but one to bid him go.
When lips invite,
And eyes delight,
And cheeks as fresh as rose in June,
Persuade delay,--
What boots to say
Forego me now, come to me soon.”
Parting Quotes Source: Dulcina, see Cayley's "Life of Raleigh", vol. I, ch. III attributed to Brydges, who edited Raleigh's
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“No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
But that with mortal thing it may be bought.”
Bribery Quotes Source: Love the Only Price of Love
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“Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not.”
Doubt Quotes Source: A Lover's Verses
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“Hatreds are the cinders of affection.”
Hatred Quotes Source: in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil
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“Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
Passion Quotes Source: The Silent Lover
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“In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.”
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“No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.”
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“So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.”
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“Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.”
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Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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