Sir Walter Raleigh

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“Our graves that hide us from the searching sun
Are like drawn curtains when the play is done.
Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest,
Only, we die in earnest—that’s no jest.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

“Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.”
—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)