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Quotes by Sir Walter Raleigh
A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.— filed under Belief
Prophet of Khorassan. If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?— filed under Chastity
If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be?— filed under Confession
Cowards may fear to die; but courage stout, Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.— filed under Courage
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 hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far stretchèd greatness, all the pride, cruelty and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!— filed under Death
Fain would I but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not.— filed under Doubt
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.— filed under Fear
[History] hath triumphed over Time, which besides it, nothing but Eternity hath triumphed over.— filed under History
the World. Preface. In a word, we may gather out of history a policy no less wise than eternal; by the comparison and application of other men's forepassed miseries with our own like errors and ill deservings.— filed under History
Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self. S.— filed under Love
Price of Love. If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee, and be thy love.— filed under Love
Secure his Treasure. No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.— filed under Occupations-Mercantile
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.— filed under Parting
Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.— filed under Passion
The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men. Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.— filed under Silence
Shall I, like an hermit, dwell On a rock or in a cell? See— filed under Solitude
SOUL (THE). Go, Soul, the Body's guest, Upon a thankless errand; Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant. Go, since I needs must die, And give them all the lie.— filed under Sorrow
Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill !— filed under Sorrow
и. Ch. LXIII. E'en such is time! which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have; And pays us naught but age and dust, Which, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. And from which grave, and earth, and dust, The Lord will raise me up, I trust.— filed under Time