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10 Quotes for 'Sir Walter Raleigh' in the Database.
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Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes
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No mortal thing can bear so high a price,
But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
Topic: Bribery
Source: Love the Only Price of Love
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If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?
Topic: Chastity
Source: written the night before his death, see Bayley's "Life of Raleigh"
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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.
Topic: Doubt
Source: A Lover's Verses
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No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.
Topic: Dress
Source: None
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So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
Topic: Famous Last Words
Source: None
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Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Topic: Hatred
Source: in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil
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In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
Topic: Knowledge
Source: None
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Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.
Topic: Loquacity
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Parting
Source: Dulcina, see Cayley's "Life of Raleigh", vol. I, ch. III attributed to Brydges, who edited Raleigh's
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Topic: Passion
Source: The Silent Lover
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