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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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Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
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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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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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Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
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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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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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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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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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Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done neither with pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too-much-loved earth more lovely her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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