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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
Heart
Truancy
Muse
Fool
Write
Look
Looks
Writing

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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
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There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
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The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
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Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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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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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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