“Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.”
On the snuff of a candle the night before he died; Raleigh's Remains, p. 258, ed. 1661
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English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, a… 1554–1618Related quotes
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