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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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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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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 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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Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
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The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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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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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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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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Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
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Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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