Quote #12

Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty: A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

More from Sir Walter Raleigh

  1. Cowards fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
  2. 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.
  3. Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
  4. Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.
  5. 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…
  6. Even 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 …
  7. 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…
  8. Shall I, like an hermit, dwell On a rock or in a cell?

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