Sir Walter Raleigh

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

    But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    Whoso desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)