Our shipping and sea service is our best and safest defence as being the only fortification and rampart of England. Walter Raleigh More Quotes by Walter Raleigh More Quotes From Walter Raleigh 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. Walter Raleigh ambition home war Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred. Walter Raleigh unborn ill manners A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth. Walter Raleigh bears men firsts Love likes not the falling fruit, Walter Raleigh likes tree fall Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody. Walter Raleigh youth opportunity Desire attained is not desire, Walter Raleigh fire desire The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut. Walter Raleigh ivy nuts men An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake. Walter Raleigh orange cake book 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. Walter Raleigh desire giving men And when I'm introduced to one Walter Raleigh age wish fun There is no error which hath not some appearance of probability resembling truth, which, when men who study to be singular find out, straining reason, they then publish to the world matter of contention and jangling. Walter Raleigh errors matter men Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous. Walter Raleigh flattery praise men Prevention is the daughter of intelligence. Walter Raleigh prudence prevention daughter If any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou hast to spare; if he press thee further, he is not thy friend at all, for friendship rather chooseth harm to itself than offereth it. If thou be bound for a stranger, thou art a fool; if for a merchant, thou puttest thy estate to learn to swim. Walter Raleigh swim giving art Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue. Walter Raleigh pain talking men 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. Walter Raleigh trust caring special Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. Walter Raleigh and-love men death Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself. Walter Raleigh folly trust men Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy. Walter Raleigh soul joy heaven The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war. Walter Raleigh body men war
