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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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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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Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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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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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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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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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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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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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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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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