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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
Philip Sidney
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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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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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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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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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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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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
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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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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.
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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.
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