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No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

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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
Forth
Affection
Anything
Much
Sets

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The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
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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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Liking is not always the child of beauty but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
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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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