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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
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Heart
Truancy
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Fool
Write
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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
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My true love hath my heart, and I have his
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In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
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How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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