Walter Raleigh Quotes about Death

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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

Walter Raleigh

Death, Medicine, Physicians

Sir Walter Raleigh (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Raleigh (Illustrated)”, p.206, Delphi Classics

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 hath 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

Death, Ambition, Pride

Sir Walter Raleigh (1820). “The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon”, p.370