Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleighwas an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He was cousin to Sir Richard Grenville and younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth22 January 1552
eternity
Hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
wise honesty safe
No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
execution world prison
The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
famous-love care pale
If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?
fun age wish
And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
vanity touching religion
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
romance affair love-affair
Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
spring flower fall
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.
trust men folly
Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.
trust caring special
Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.
coward cowardice
Better it were not to live than to live a coward.
time evening
... but the longest day hath its evening.
worst dies
To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.
perseverance hands enemy
Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.