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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.

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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
Ring
Rings
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Dead
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Shows
Love
Mourning
Bells

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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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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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It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
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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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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
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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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Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.
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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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How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!
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O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!
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Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
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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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The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.
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