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My true love hath my heart, and I have his

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
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Novelist
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Kent
England
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
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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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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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Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
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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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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.
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