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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
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
Away
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Brooks
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
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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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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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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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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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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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The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.
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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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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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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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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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