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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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It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
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Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.
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To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
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Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?
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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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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
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Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
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**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life.
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Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
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There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
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Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
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What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love but the secret of my friend is not mine!
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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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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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A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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