Sir Walter Raleigh

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    What is our life? a play of passion;
    Our mirth the music of division;
    Our mothers’ wombs the tiring-houses be
    Where we are dressed for this short comedy.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
    Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
    My God shall raise me up, I trust.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)