Frases de Walter Raleigh
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Walter Raleigh[1]​ fue un marino, corsario, asesino, escritor, cortesano y político inglés, que popularizó el tabaco en Europa. Era el hijo menor de Walter Raleigh y de su tercera esposa, Katherine Champernowne. En la literatura clásica española era conocido como Guatarral o Guantarral.[2]​

Aliado desde el principio al bando de la reina virgen Isabel I, luchó tenazmente contra los rebeldes irlandeses de Desmond , concibió el proyecto de colonizar América del Norte, fundando en 1584 en la isla de Roanoke la colonia Virginia en honor a la reina Isabel, contribuyó a la derrota de la Armada Invencible española y luchó en la Invencible Inglesa por devolverle el trono al rey de Portugal con fatídicos resultados . Wikipedia  

✵ 1554 – 29. octubre 1618
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Walter Raleigh: Frases en inglés

“Fame's but a hollow echo; gold, pure clay;
Honour, the darling but of one short day,
Beauty—th' eye's idol—but a damasked skin;
State, but a golden prison to live in
And torture free-born minds.”

"A Farewell to the Vanities of the World" http://www.bartleby.com/331/467.html, lines 3–7. Author uncertain. Attributed to Henry Wotton and to Raleigh.
Attributed

“Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.”

Fuente: Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter IV

“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!”

His Own Epitaph, written the night before his execution (1618) and found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Fuente: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tnk8RpOFWw "Even Such is Time" — Choir of Salisbury Cathedral

“So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies.”

Stebbing's Sir Walter Raleigh, chapter 30, gives these as Raleigh's words on being asked by the executioner which way he wanted to lay his head on the block.
Attributed

“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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