Walter Raleigh
Quotes by Walter Raleigh
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PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
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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.
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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.
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PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;
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Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
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