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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
Sets
Forth
Affection
Anything
Much

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Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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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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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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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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Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
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Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.
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Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
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Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
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And thou my minde aspire to higher things Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death.
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