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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

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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
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Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.
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O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle.
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Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
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Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
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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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The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.
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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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It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
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Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
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A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
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What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
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My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.
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It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.
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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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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 general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.
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