Walter Raleigh: Man

Walter Raleigh was English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.”

Source: Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter VII

“Why dost thou not strike? Strike, man!”

To his executioner, as reported in Curiosities of Literature (1835) by Isaac Disraeli, p. 302
Attributed

“O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet”

Here lies
The History of the World Book V, chapter 6

“All histories do shew, 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.”

Source: The Cabinet Council (published 1658), Chapter 25

“No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.”

Advice to the Earl of Rutland on his Travels (1596)