SIR WALTER RALEIGH QUOTES
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- 'Know that Love is a careless child,
- And forgets promises past;
- He is blind, he is deaf when he list,
- And in faith never fast.
- 'His desire is a dureless content,
- And a trustless joy;
- He is won with a world of despair,
- And is lost with a toy.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH, As Ye Came from the Holy Land
- 'Of womenkind such indeed is the love,
- Or the word love abused,
- Under which many childish desires
- And conceits are excused.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH, As Ye Came from the Holy Land
- True love is a durable fire,
- In the mind ever burning.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH, As Ye Came from the Holy Land
- Love likes not the falling fruit,
- Nor the withered tree.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH, As Ye Came from the Holy Land
- Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
- The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
WALTER RALEIGH, The Silent Lover
- Even such is time, that takes in trust
- Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
- And pays us but with age and dust.
WALTER RALEIGH, lines written the night before his death
History hath triumphed over time, which beside it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
WALTER RALEIGH, preface, History of the World
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