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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
Philip Sidney
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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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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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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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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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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
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Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
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