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They love indeed who quake to say they love.

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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
Indeed
Love
Life
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
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There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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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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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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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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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
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The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.
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