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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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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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As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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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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True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
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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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There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.
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The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.
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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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To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
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