Sir Walter Raleigh

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    “Our passions are most like to floods and streams,
    The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    “And they be these: the wood, the weed, the wag.
    The wood is that which makes the gallow tree;
    The weed is that which strings the hangman’s bag;”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    “War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)