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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
Write
Look
Looks
Writing
Heart
Truancy
Muse
Fool

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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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