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Sir Walter Raleigh (/ˈrɔːli/, /ˈræli/, or /ˈrɑːli/; circa 1554 – 29 October 1618) was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. He was cousin to Sir Richard Grenville and younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England.

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Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

Giving, Glory, Hope, Joy, Staff, Walk

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Hath, Know, Orbis, Past, Thinking, World

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

Colorful, Except, Fool, Fools, Garments, Women

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

Desire, Giving, Men, Thee, Thy

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Deep, Dumb, Music, Passion, Rain, Streams

If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?

Care, Fair, Famous Love, Pale, Undervalues

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

Division, Houses, Life, Mirth, Mother, Passion

It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

Glorious, Kings, Pirate, Thing

But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.

Boots, Delight, Eye, June, Lips, Rose

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy.

Caring, Matter, Shalt, Special, Take, Trust

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

Done, Evil, Integrity, Men, Perfect

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

Ambition, Home, Quarrel, War

Who so 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.

Evil, Hands, Men, Ought, State

Let valour end my life!

British History, Ends, History, Let, Life, Valour

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

Constrained, Mean, Men, Nature, Run, Running

There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.

Advised, Found, God, Men, Solid, Understanding

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

Addition, Flatter, Flattery, Men, Praise, Praises

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

Difference, Differences, Eating, Latter, Men, Rich

The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.

Believed, Deceit, Gains, Lying, Speak, Truth

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.

Foulness, Mean, Men, Power, Rest, Wit

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