More from Sir Walter Raleigh

  1. No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.
  2. All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presu…
  3. Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first…
  4. It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other ex…
  5. Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
  6. All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have…
  7. 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…
  8. He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who…

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