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.
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!
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.
execution world prison
The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
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.
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.
life self divine
Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.