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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
Military Personnel
Novelist
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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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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Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
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The day seems long, but night is odious no sleep, but dreams no dreams but visions strange.
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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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Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
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It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
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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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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
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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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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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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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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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And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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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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A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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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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