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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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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.
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Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
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Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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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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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
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Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
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Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.
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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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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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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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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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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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