Miscellaneous works
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“No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
“It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.”
Source: The history of the world
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch
“An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.”
“Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.”
“Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch
Source: The History of the World in Five Books
Source: Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry
“Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.”
Source: The history of the world
“Better it were not to live than to live a coward.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by William Oldys. The life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by Tho. Birch
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works
Source: The history of the world
“God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.”
Source: The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works
“Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: -7. The history of the world
“Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
Source: The history of the world
Source: The history of the world
Source: Miscellaneous works
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works
“Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works
“The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.”
Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh
Source: Miscellaneous works
“And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!”