Sir Walter Raleigh (/ ' r l i /, / ' r æ l i /, or / ' r l i / ; c. 1554 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularizing tobacco in England.
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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. Go to Quote / Comment
There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject. Go to Quote / Comment
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. Go to Quote / Comment
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. Go to Quote / Comment
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean. Go to Quote / Comment