Carolina Quotes
[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

Walter Raleigh Connected to the Carolinas

Source

The History of the World (1614), Preface

year
1614

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“[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing…” Walter Raleigh. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-9EC95A8887. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/9ec95a8887

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Our passions are most like to floods and streams; The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen (published 1655); alternately reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) as: "Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb" and titled The Silent Lover. Compare: "Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi", (translated: "The deepest rivers flow with the least sound"), Q. Curtius, vii. 4. 13. "Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep", William Shakespeare, 2 Henry VI. act iii. sc. i.

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