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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
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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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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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.
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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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Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
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Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
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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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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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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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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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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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Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.
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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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Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.
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Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
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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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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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