Sir Walter Raleigh quote: "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."

For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world command...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dare...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wis...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtu...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ev...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say any...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, an...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wo...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

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

It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to end...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, ...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allur...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Go, Soul, the body
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh an...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance ...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

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

Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not for pleasure when...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike...
WALTER RALEIGH

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
WALTER RALEIGH

Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish...
WALTER ALEXANDER RALEIGH

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.

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

Romance is a love affair in other that domestic surroundings
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and...
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.

If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thin...
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.

In examinations, those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never...
WALTER RALEIGH, SR.

Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thin...
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never...
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, an...
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

Romance is a love affair in other that domestic surroundings
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and...
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

In examinations, those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall
WALTER RALEIGH SR.

I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it wa...
WALTER ALEXANDER RALEIGH

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,Who never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native l...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to tho...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Look back, and smile at perils past.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

O!, many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at rando...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some kno...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues her...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the s...
SIR WALTER BESANT

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

But with morning cool repentance came.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Then, wearied by the uncertainty and difficulties with which each scheme appeared to be attended, he...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gamb...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but i...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall for...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

We do that in our zeal our calmer moment would be afraid to answer.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their sc...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?
SIR WALTER SCOTT

But with the morning cool repentance came.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Do what you should, not what you may.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my n...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears; The...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

He is most powerful who governs himself.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Consider an enemy may become a friend.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Caution comes too late when we are in the midst of evils.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in stor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for su...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
SIR WALTER RALEGH

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! Happiest they of human race, To ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wo...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings wel...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The will to do, the soul to dare.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at ran...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

And let our barks across the pathless flood Hold different courses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the weste...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Ye...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Art thou a friend to Roderick?
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea, The orange flower perfumes the bow...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Credit is like a looking - glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clean again; but...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

That day of wrath, that dreadful day, when heaven and earth shall pass away.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

And come he slow, or come he fast,
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

I am enamoured of my journal
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown
SIR WALTER SCOTT

True love's the gift which God has given to man alone beneath the heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me
SIR WALTER SCOTT

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Scared out of his seven senses.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!
SIR WALTER SCOTT

The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows, The bashful maiden'...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high; "I drink to one," he sa...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

He who repents of his fault is almost guiltless.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

He who profits by a crime, commits it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
SIR WALTER SCOTT

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.

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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