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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
Affection
Anything
Much
Sets
Forth

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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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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.
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Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
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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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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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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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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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The day seems long, but night is odious no sleep, but dreams no dreams but visions strange.
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It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
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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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I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.
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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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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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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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