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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
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Fool
Write
Look
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Writing

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High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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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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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
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For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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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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