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
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.
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!
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.
wise history may
In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.