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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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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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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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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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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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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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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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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?
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The first mark of valor is defence.
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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
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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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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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