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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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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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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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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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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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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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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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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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To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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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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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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