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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.
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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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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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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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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.
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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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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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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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