Because we are neither worthy nor wise

 

How comes it that so many worthy and wise men depend upon so many unworthy and empty headed fools!

-- Walter Raleigh 

The folly of men and angels

Seeing God found folly in his angels, men's judgments, which inhabit these houses of clay, cannot be without their mistakings.

-- Walter Raleigh

One everlasting night

The sun may set and rise;

But we, contrariwise,

Sleep, after our short light,

One everlasting night.

 

--  Walter Raleigh

 

The recompense of time

 

E'vn such is time, who takes on trust

Our youth, our joys, our all we have,

And pays us but with age and dust.

-- Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)