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
easter dust earth
But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
life moving world-and-love
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.
hatred affection
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
medicine cures
'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.
beauty years lasts
If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.
cousin queens aunt
I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!
wise honesty men
It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.
life pain mind
Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
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.