Walter Raleigh quotes
Walter Raleigh was an English explorer, writer, and courtier, noted for his role in the Elizabethan era. His expeditions to the Americas and efforts to colonize Roanoke Island made him a central figure in English exploration. He became famous for his adventurous spirit and ultimately faced execution for alleged treason. Here are 42 of his quotes:
Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Walter Raleigh
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.
Walter Raleigh
