Famous quotes containing the words sir walter raleigh, walter raleigh, sir walter, sir, walter and/or raleigh:
“All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
“Our passions are most like to floods and streams,
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
“There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)
“‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
For to fight is but to die!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Go, Soul, the body’s guest,
Upon a thankless arrant:
Fear not to touch the best;
The truth shall be thy warrant:
Go, since I needs must die,
And give the world the lie.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)
“He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)