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Walter Raleigh was an English writer, explorer, soldier, and politician. He is renowned for his poetry, such as 'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd', and his involvement in the establishment of the Roanoke Colony in North America. Raleigh served as a courtier to Elizabeth I and later became a favorite of King James I.

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Famous Walter Raleigh Quotes

“The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!”

World Wells War House Particular Kings Glorious Britain Peers Good Kings

Author:Walter Raleigh

“It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.”

Men War Home Fighting Found Ambition Stability Decline Quarrels

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

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.”

Men May War Body

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

“The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.”

Humans Kind War Action Law Affinity Human Actions

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.”

War Order Virtue Quiet Glory Fortune Ruins Disorder Idleness Good Fortune Begets

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

“A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.”

Ifs Thinking Men War Letters Privacy Jealous

Author:Walter Raleigh