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• Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. -- Sir Walter Raleigh
• Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
• I would fain die a dry death. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest -- Act i, Sc. 1
• We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• If she undervalue me, What care I how fair she be? -- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) -- Poem
• If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?
  -- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) -- Poem...
• I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare
  and I dare a little the more as I grow older....
• My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf
  And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have...
• Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i' the adage.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act i, Sc. 7...