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Silence in love bewrays more woe
Than words, though ne’er so witty:
A beggar that is dumb, you know,
May challenge double pity.

— Walter Raleigh

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

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

A wise man ought not to desire to inhabit that country where men have more authority than laws.

The Cabinet Council (1658)

Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (1632)

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory and good fortune.

The Cabinet Council (1658)

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

The History of the World (1614)

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There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

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