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In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
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Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
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Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.
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As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.
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It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
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It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
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A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.
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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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The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.
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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 first mark of valor is defence.
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Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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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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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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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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Love, one time, layeth burdens another time, giveth wings.
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What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
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They love indeed who quake to say they love.
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