More from Sir Walter Raleigh

  1. Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
  2. Remember...that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will never last nor please thee one ye…
  3. If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?
  4. Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the acco…
  5. Shall I, like an hermit, dwell On a rock or in a cell?
  6. But it is hard to know them [flatterers] from friends, they are so obsequious, and full of protestations; for as a wolf resembles a dog, so…
  7. 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 …
  8. Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

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