Sir Walter Raleigh

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    All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.... I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
    Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)

    But true love is a durable fire
    In the mind ever burning;
    Never sick, never old, never dead,
    From itself never turning.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)