Quotes from Walter Raleigh

The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

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.

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.

For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

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

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

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

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

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

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good.

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.

Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

Let valour end my life!