John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
241 Sir Walter Raleigh 1554?-1618 John Bartlett
| 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] |