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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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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
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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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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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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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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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What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love but the secret of my friend is not mine!
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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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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
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The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
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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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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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It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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There is nothing evil but what is within us the rest is either natural or accidental.
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