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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
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Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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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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Fear is the underminer of all determinations and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
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A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
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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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The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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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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Fool, said my muse to me. Look in thy heart and write.
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The first mark of valor is defence.
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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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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
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It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.
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No is no negative in a woman's mouth.
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A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.
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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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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
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