Sir Walter Raleigh quotes

" So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies. " # Heart

" O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet! " # Death and Dying # Ambition # Friends and Friendship

" Hatreds are the cinders of affection. " # Hatred # Freedom # Power

" All histories do show, 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. " # Evil # Politicians and Politics # Government

" Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. " # Home

" Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds. " # Deeds and Good Deeds # Words # Vanity

" Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish. " # Discretion # Religion # Mistakes

" No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women. " # Dress # Fools and Foolishness # self-esteem

" 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. " # Extremes and Extremists # Virtue # Age and Aging

" But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend. " # Flattery # Repentance # Friends and Friendship