Quote #10
Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
More from Sir Walter Raleigh
- Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and sile…
- Cowards fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
- O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the wor…
- Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
- Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
- Fain 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.
- [History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
- Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.