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"Why dost thou not strike? Strike, man!"
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Walter RaleighThere is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation. — Walter Raleigh
"There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation."
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Sir Walter Raleigh was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer. One of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, he played a leading part in English colonisation of North America, suppressed rebellion in Ireland, helped defend England against the Spanish Armada and held political positions under Elizabeth I.
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"No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest."
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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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"Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb."
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"If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherds tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field, To winter floods their treasures yield; A honeyd tongue, a heart of gall, Is Fancys spring, but Sorrows fall."
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"The world itself is but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution."
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