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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
Quake
Indeed
Love
Life

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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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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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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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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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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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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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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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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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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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It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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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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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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