Sir Walter Raleigh

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    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)

    With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespear when I measure my mind against his.... But I am bound to add that I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespear. He has outlasted thousands of abler thinkers, and will outlast a thousand more.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    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)