241. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1554?-1618. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	241
AUTHOR:	Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618)
QUOTATION:	Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. 1

Note 1.
Written in a glass window obvious to the Queen’s eye. “Her Majesty, either espying or being shown it, did under-write, ‘If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.’”—Thomas Fuller: Worthies of England, vol. i. p. 419. [back]

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