Sir Walter Raleigh

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    What is our life? a play of passion;
    Our mirth the music of division;
    Our mothers’ wombs the tiring-houses be
    Where we are dressed for this short comedy.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
    Robin, Sir Day (b. 1915)

    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)

    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)