In a letter to a friend the ...

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
 Walter Raleigh

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.
 Walter Raleigh
Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!
 Walter Raleigh
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
 Walter Raleigh
Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
 Walter Raleigh
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.
 Walter Raleigh